Rethick Aswin

“Don’t be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don’t live a lonely life without love. I’ve been so worried that because of what happened you’ll give up on falling in love. Love is wonderful. I don’t want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They go on warming your heart as long as you live. When you get old like me, you’ll understand.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr