“You can drive yourself crazy thinking about different things you could have done in the past.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“I like knowing that my problems exist within a large and respected tradition of problems. That ever since the beginning of civilization, humans have been very upset.”
― Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
― Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
“It was hard for me to accept the fact that we don’t choose who we love, because who you love changes everything.”
― Hello Beautiful
― Hello Beautiful
“One who shines in argument is not necessarily a good fellow, while the other who is out-talked is not necessarily a bad fellow, either.”
― Botchan
― Botchan
“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Blue Sisters
― Blue Sisters
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