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“I was filled with intense regret, wondering why I had let Yukihiko go. And yet, I knew that it was wrong to think about it in terms of letting him go or being the one to end things. It was simply over. Everything was.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

“We were anxious. We were light. We had been rapturously happy. We had been in despair. We had been on the verge of loving one another. But, incapable of doing so, we found ourselves on the precipice, doomed to remain there forever.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

“My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“It grows because you tend it.' This was a phrase often repeated by my great-aunt when she was alive. 'That's how love is,' she used to say. 'If the love is true, then treat it the same way you would a plant - feed it, protect it from the elements - you must do absolutely everything you can. But if it isn't true, then it's best to just let it wither on the vine.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo