Aescwine

“I read my books with diligence, and mounting skill, and gathering certainty. I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“Perhaps she loved him too. Every time he found a sign that she might, he felt the anguish of love, yet when he reconsidered and thought he must be wrong, he was in anguish again.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, At the End of the Matinee

“People think that only the future can be changed, but in fact, the future is continually changing the past. The past can and does change. It’s exquisitely sensitive and delicately balanced.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, At the End of the Matinee

“After that ephemeral relief passed, and the deep colors of reality painted over Akari's lingering presence in me, what silently crept in was a hollow but refreshing feeling - that I may never wish to be understood again.”
― Arata Kanoh , 5 Centimeters per Second: one more side