“To be young is the only religion.”
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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