“Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.”
― Goodbye Tsugumi
― Goodbye Tsugumi
“A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on what's inside the person looking at it. If you get this deep, quiet kind of feeling when you look at a fire, that's because it's showing you the deep, quiet kind of feeling you have inside yourself...”
― After the Quake
― After the Quake
“I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”
― After the Quake
― After the Quake
“I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life”
― After the Quake
― After the Quake
“What was I hoping to gain from this?...Was I trying to confirm the ties that make it possible for me to exist here and now. Was I hoping to be woven into some new plot, to be given some new and better defined role to play? No, he thought, that's not it. What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I'm sure I'll never see it again.”
― After the Quake
― After the Quake
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