Suzan Lemont

“Later, Yui realized she had learned another important thing in that place of confinement: that silencing a man was equivalent to erasing him forever. And so it was important to tell stories, to talk to people, to talk about people. To listen to people talking about other people. Even to speak with the dead, if it helped.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“Love is like therapy, it only works when you believe in it.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“Sometimes she cried, sometimes she laughed, because life could still be funny, even after a tragedy.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

“tsunami rose much higher than predicted, so much so that, in some cases, the term ‘shelter’ became a broken formula, a misspelled word;”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World