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“His soul is too dense. If he comes out, he'll dissolve into pieces, like a deep-sea fish pulled to the surface too quickly. I suppose my job is to go on holding him here at the bottom of the sea.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Memories don't just pile up—they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord. Though the process, for me, is quite different from what happens to the rest of you when something disappears from the island.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Did anyone ever imagine, back in the old days, that eventually a day would come when people and their brains would each die a separate death?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Because the sky is high and lonely, and it makes me feel very alone, and that makes my heart dance, and then I feel stronger. But at the same time, there's this energy in the air; it's a time of waiting, before winter really sets in.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck