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“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word.
“Pessi-what?”
“Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.”
“Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Pessi-what?”
“Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.”
“Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
Hà’s 2024 Year in Books
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