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Without rambling about it too much, I just couldn't get into this for some reason.
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“He was frightened of everything, it sometimes seemed, and he hated that about himself. Fear and hatred: often, it seemed that those were the only two qualities he possessed. Fear of everyone else; hatred of himself.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“I'd lived enough years now to know that there were some ghosts that haunted you forever.”
― Spells for Forgetting
― Spells for Forgetting
“She breathed out and the last of the ghosts lifted. Not just [redacted]’s. There had been other ghosts trapped here: the spirit of a ferocious teenage girl and the boy she loved. They were gone now too, passed into the realm of memory where they belonged, where they could rest. As the spirits faded, so did the last of the ties that had bound Misaki to the horizon for so many years, dissolving like threads of blood in water.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“Then she reached out and held him. Cold. But what did that matter? So was she.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“Spreading his fingers out in the whiteness, Takeru let everything flow to the mountain. The pain dispersed into a thousand snowflakes, then ten thousand, thinning like mist to the morning.
For his whole life, Takeru had been certain that he was right to cast his pain off on the mountain, that it was the only way—because how could one possibly hold so much suffering in something as small as a human form?
Yet here was this this woman who held everything inside a little body of flesh and blood without breaking”
― The Sword of Kaigen
For his whole life, Takeru had been certain that he was right to cast his pain off on the mountain, that it was the only way—because how could one possibly hold so much suffering in something as small as a human form?
Yet here was this this woman who held everything inside a little body of flesh and blood without breaking”
― The Sword of Kaigen
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