Carly

“It's hard to know what's inside a person. If you judge people only by their words and faces, you miss the really important things. But then, what should we do instead? I think it's best to let people's actions speak for themselves.”
― Sonoko Machida, The Convenience Store by the Sea

“Their faces lit up as they looked at the picture that Yoshirō had made. A smile rose of its own accord on his face. The whole reason he wanted to draw in the first place, he recalled, was to see faces like these. He wanted to draw pictures that would make people really feel something.”
― Sonoko Machida, The Convenience Store by the Sea

“The words were so foreign to Azusa she had a hard time understanding them. Critical, cancer, terminal, caregivers. She'd read them in books and heard them on television dramas, sure enough, but was Nayuta describing her own father?”
― Sonoko Machida, The Convenience Store by the Sea

“I’m sorry. I thought you were trying to steal the sandwich from me,” Rose muttered as she sat on his handkerchief. “I would never do that.” “Why not?” “There isn’t an idiot in the world who would snatch away something that delights the woman he loves.”
― Eiko Mutsuhana, Hello, I am a Witch and my Crush Wants me to Make a Love Potion! Vol. 2