Daryl Beckham

“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Nobody’s life was untouched by loneliness; it was just a question of whether or not you were able to accept that loneliness for what it was.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job

“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“The time had come to embrace the ups and downs again. I had no way of knowing what pitfalls might be lying in wait for me, but what I’d discovered by doing five jobs in such a short span of time was this: the same was true of everything. You never knew what was going to happen, whatever you did. You just had to give it your all, and hope for the best. Hope like anything it would turn out alright.”
― Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job