Ligeia

“That’s my dream. It’s always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it’s just as scary as the last.
(…)
It’s so real, I feel as if I’ve already died hundreds of times.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“„I betrayed you,” I said, so quietly that I hardly knew it was my own voice. It felt like a lie even though I told the truth. He stood perfectly still. A siren sounded, long and low.
„You can't get home. They've stopped the boat,” he said.

Strangely, I did not think about Mother, or what I would tell her tomorrow. It seemed that tomorrow would never come,(…)”
― Yōko Ogawa, Hotel Iris

“The blades touched my abdomen. A cold shock ran through me, and my head began to spin. If he had pressed just a bit harder, the scissors might have pierced my soft belly. The skin would have peeled back, the fat beneath laid bare. Blood would have dripped on the bedspread.”
― Yōko Ogawa, Hotel Iris