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Mieko Kawakami
“Memory's funny, isn't it? We remember some things out of nowhere, but so much of what happens, we never think about again.”
Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami
“I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I choose nothing. I did nothing.”
Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami
“Without love and trust, resentment is the only thing that’s left.”
Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami
“When I start to feel emotional about something, I can't tell if I'm actually feeling that way. What if it's just something somebody wrote in a book? Or maybe a line or a performance from some movie... Either way, I get this feeling like I'm quoting somebody else's work.”
Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami
“What is dying anyway? I let this impossible question fill the darkness of my bedroom. I thought about how somebody was always dying somewhere, at any given moment. This isn’t a fable or a joke or an abstract idea. People are always dying. It’s a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die. And if that’s true, why bother living at all? Why was I even alive? I made myself crazy, tossing and turning, hyperventilat- ing. Then it hit me: dying is just like sleeping. You only know you’re sleeping when you wake up the next day, but if morn- ing never comes, you sleep forever. That must be what death is like. When someone dies, they don’t even know they’re dead. Because they never see it happen, nobody ever really dies. This hit me like a sucker punch.”
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
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