Jayvee Policarpio

“No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.”
― Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Welcome to the N.H.K.

“That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle