Disha J.

“All this time, I believed that I had no talent for drawing. I believed I could never have a normal working life. Now I was starting to wonder. How much had my own thinking limited my opportunities?
The self I left behind in high school sits on the palm of my left hand. It had been preserved in the ground all these years.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

“If I can draw just one picture that leaves a mark in somebody’s life and is remembered, then I can find a place for me.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

“There’s no guarantee of certainty in anything. But the flip side to there being no guarantee of security is that there’s also no certainty that something is a dud.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

“You need to be careful when reading biographies and history.’
I lift my head at this, and she looks me in the eye.
‘You have to remember that it is merely one version of events, and only the parties involved can ever know the real truth. There are always numerous interpretations, and hearsay, about who said or did what. Misunderstandings occur even in real time; you can see that on the internet. So when it comes to events deep in the past, it’s very difficult to be sure of what is accurate.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library