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

“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

“Ever since kindergarten, Azusa had dreamed of becoming a pastry chef. The first thing she remembered writing was an essay about building a shop that looked like a gingerbread house.”
― 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