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“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

“If I couldn’t move toward him, then I’d throw words out like little life rafts, hoping one would reach him and keep us both from sinking.”
― Alyssa Songsiridej, Little Rabbit

“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

“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