Yashihimi

“Krajobraz mroku nigdy się nie zmienia. Nie zliczę, ile razy szedłem tą ścieżką, a z każdym krokiem powracają te same rojenia.”
― Motojirō Kajii, Cytryna

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He was no longer sure about what he thought he'd come to understand. Listening to the ticking of the clock, he fumbled, as though he were squinting in darkness, to trace the genesis of their relationship.”
― Hideo Yokoyama, Six Four

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life