Ana

“Things that you put off saying until tomorrow are sometimes never said”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades

“Something I strongly believe is that we mustn't allow the death of a person to be the cause of unhappiness. The reason for that is simple: if we let everyone who dies be a cause for unhappiness, that would mean people are being born to be unhappy. But the opposite in fact is true. People are always born for the sake of happiness.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades

“But realize this, brother. You fly no one’s flag. You’re free to seek your own harbour. And you can do so much more than tread water.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’

‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel