“But unless things are seen with fresh eyes,” he added, “nothing’s worth writing down.”
“Etsuko had to go back to the restaurant, but she settled on the sofa for a few minutes. When she had been a young mother there used to be only one time in her waking hours where she’d felt a kind of peace, and that was always after her children went to bed for the night. She longed to see her sons as they were back then: their legs chubby and white, their mushroom haircuts misshapen because they could never sit still at the barber. She wished she could take back the times she had scolded her children just because she was tired. There were so many errors. If life allowed revisions, she would let them stay in their bath a little longer, read them one more story before bed, and fix them another plate of shrimp.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“It didn't happen the way one can tell it; but if once can tell it as it was, then one wasn't in on it, or it all happened so long ago that candor comes too easily. In order to make the story tellable, one has to separate and put into sequence events which in reality were so entangled as to be inexplicable...”
― The Quest for Christa T.
― The Quest for Christa T.
“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Kassandra
― Kassandra
“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”
― City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
― City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
“Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.”
― City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
― City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
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