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“I've already had to deal with the hardest thing in the world. You know what that was? It was to try to meet someone who's already disappeared.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Ms Ice Sandwich

“Which is the real Grandma? The Grandma who used to pick me up from nursery school? The Grandma who made me her special veggie meatballs? Breakfast-time Grandma when she dipped her bread in coffee before eating it? Gentle Grandma who, whenever Mum scolded me and pushed me away would sit next to me and let me talk? When Grandma goes away from this earth, where will she go? It's not happened yet, but I'm thinking about it now because I know that one day it's definitely, for sure, going to happen, And when I think about it, the air inside my chest gets heavier and heavier and it feels as if there's no escape.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Ms Ice Sandwich

“Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“As I start home she waves at me and says, "Al Pacino!" I raise my hand and wave back and say, "Al Pacino!”
― Mieko Kawakami, Ms Ice Sandwich