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“Her life was like a pale shadow of life, given form by innumerable layers of anguish.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“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

“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police