Nikki

“If there was one thing that defined adolescence it was hysterical laughter. You never laughed like that again. In adolescence the brutal realisation that the world and life were completely absurd made you laugh until you couldn’t catch your breath, whereas in later life it would only result in a weary sigh.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“I recalled that rainy day when I'd rescued Chobi-or so I'd arrogantly believed at the time. Actually, I was the one who'd been rescued.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa, She and Her Cat: Stories

“There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else’s life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“No human is always strong, but then no human is weak for ever, either.”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat: Stories