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“That was quite a discovery for me, the fact that arbitrary kindness makes me uncomfortable, but that being treated fairly feels good.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“I hadn't known that he felt the same way. By the time I found out, my feelings had already been oddly distorted, squashed down into the furthest reaches of my heart.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“I imagined the choreographer’s love as a fall into the frozen river, losing myself in the dark water like a soft annihilation. What would happen when I needed to surface and found the hole frozen back over. What he did, I wanted, true. And I feared what I wanted, the urge to jump over, dive deep. What he’d done was crack something new inside of me and let it break the world.”
― Alyssa Songsiridej, Little Rabbit

“He had underestimated me. All along. Even though I had not underestimated him. But, how do you love someone without blinding yourself? Don’t we all have to indulge each other, let our guard down, and -ever so slightly- lower ourselves, in order to love someone?”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino