Mairi

“Forcing myself to make conversation felt like standing on a cliff, peering over the edge, about to tumble down headfirst.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone.”
― Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)

“My engineer father once told me that marriage and who you fall in love with are largely a matter of chance, chemicals, and how far you’re willing to drive.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)”
― Dorothy Parker, Death and Taxes