Nath.

“I keep myself together by living other people’s pain,” he said eventually with an indescribably lonesome smile. “It’s like the expression ‘the man who goes mummy hunting ends up a mummy himself . . .’ Do you understand what it’s like to be honest through lies?”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

“There’s a painting by René Magritte entitled Not to Be Reproduced in which a man with his back turned is looking into a mirror at the back of another version of himself inside the mirror, who is likewise looking into the depths of the reflection.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

“For me, Chibi is a friend with whom I share an understanding, and who just happens to have taken on the form of a cat.”
― Takashi Hiraide, The Guest Cat

“It’s unbearable to have your identity summed up by one thing and one thing only and for other people to have control over what that is.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man