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Mari Akasaka
“Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that they don't make red wine in Germany? What do you mean, there are some aren't there? Nope, they're white, Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that there are no red wines in Germany?”
Mari Akasaka, Vibrator

Sōji Shimada
“He was a life-form that, in the eyes of humanity, meant precisely nothing.”
Sōji Shimada, One Love Chigusa

Mari Akasaka
“You have the sense that you're the one making the world go round. Everyone speaks in fragments, but for an instant those fragments are a catalyst, my self is erased and it brings on a wave of pure ecstasy, that instant in the drug.”
Mari Akasaka, Vibrator

“He would have no choice but to gaze at the sleeping face of his wife, pleasantly sleeping her usual way in the comfort of his arm, and, within the emotion of fear, dread and apprehension, take stock of his calibre as a human.”
Kazufumi Shiraishi, Stand-In Companion

Guy Kennaway
“Had she, like a good therapist, helped me reach back in time to turn the dial on the locked safe of who I am? I had spent many hours with counsellors trying to remember, or to guess, or to chance upon or to deduce, the combination that would make it click and the door swing open.”
Guy Kennaway, Time to Go

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