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"...of me that these people could find, even if a short time, a place where they belonged. Like a nocturnal bird seeks a safe place to rest during the day in a vacant attic. The birds like that empty, dim, silent place. If that were true, then maybe he should be happy he was hollow." (208-209)

"What did you expect, Tsukuru asked himself. A basically empty vessel has become empty once again. Who can you complain to about that? People come to him, discover how empty he is, and leave. What's left is an empty, perhaps even emptier, Tsukuru Tazaki, all alone. Isn't that all there is to it? [...] Maybe I am just an empty, futile person, he thought. But it was precisely because there was nothing inside..." (1/2)

"Maybe there really is something about me as a person, something deep down, he thought, that is crooked and warped. Maybe Shiro was right, that I have something unhinged and detached inside of me. Like the far side of the moon, forever cloaked in darkness. [...] And maybe that dark, hidden side will one day outstrip the outer side and completely consume it." (195)

"'People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us knew anything substantial about the other.'" (126)

"He wished he could be with her longer, spend more time with her, have a good, leisurely talk. But she had her own life, most of which occurred offstage, in a place he didn't yet know about, doing things that had nothing to do with him." (129)