“Hakujin don't know when a smile is an insult." Hakujin were white people. She always said her experience showed that if you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn't hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate the. So nothing changed.”
― Floating World
― Floating World
“Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.”
― L'invention Du Desert
― L'invention Du Desert
“I wonder if anyone else in history had ever been as sad as I was at that moment. As soon as I wondered that, I knew the answer was yes. The answer was that millions of people had been sad.”
― Kira-Kira
― Kira-Kira
“Was I good or bad or mixed or what? And was the way I acted every day the real me, or was the real me somewhere so deep that I would never even know it?”
― The Thing About Luck
― The Thing About Luck
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