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“But puffing ourselves up does not lead to finding comfort in practicing dominance.”

“Perhaps it's counterintuitive, but humility is one of the most useful virtues for developing confidence.”

“But dominance thrives when we ask for what we really want, not for what it's safe to want.”

“Being comfortable allows us to act and speak naturally and gracefully, it allows us to clearly communicate what we want and to hear rejection without getting defensive, it allows our creativity to flow freely, and it is infectious: being comfortable ourselves inspires comfort in those around us.”

Creta Kano: “Do you see what I mean? The transformation that I had experienced was undoubtedly something right and true, but the transformation had been caused by something filthy, something wrong and false. This contradiction-this split-would torment me for a very long time."

Welp. He went into the well. He’s in there now. I don’t even know why. Who knows if he will be able to get out.

There’s nothing inside that head of yours but garbage and rocks. - Noboru Wataya to Toru Okada

As I mulled these things over, I began to feel incredibly sleepy. This was not an ordinary kind of sleepiness. It was an intense, even violent, sleepiness. Sleep was stripping me of consciousness the way the clothes might be stripped from the body of an unresisting person. - Toru Okada

I opened it, to find nothing inside. It was absolutely empty. All that Mr. Honda had left me was an empty box.

“…but I was not, in the true sense of the word, alive. I simply performed the mundane tasks that were handed to me, one after another. - Lieutenant Mamiya to Toru Okada

“If anything, there is something in his quiet manner that softened people’s hearts. He was utterly serene.”

“Preparing to leave the house, Kumiko asked me to zip her dress up. It was a tight fit, and closing the zipper took some doing. She was wearina a lovely fragrance behind her ears--something perfect for a summer morning. "New cologne?" I asked. Instead of answering, she glanced at her watch and reached up to fix her hair.
"I'm late," she said, and took her handbag from the table.” — Homegirl is cheating.

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it be-came, and the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving.” - Toru Okada

I’m only sixteen, and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots. - May Kasahara

Creta Kano is visiting today at 1pm. Creta is Malta’s younger sister, and her representative.

“Can you believe it? You can’t understand what it’s like to live like that. When you get used to that kind of life—of never having anything you want—then you stop knowing what it is that you want.”

“Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.”

Talking about Mr. Honda who was a “practitioner of spirit possession” he was very hard of hearing.

Malta Kano. She’s beautiful. She says the water is powerful and mystical. She says it looses power if you take it elsewhere.

Meeting Kano. She will be wearing a red-vinyl hat.

Kumiko and Toru had a small argument. Toru handled it well and talked about kumiko’s period alignment with the moon phases.

The cat is named after Kumiko’s brother, Noburu Wataya

Kumiko is making Toru search for the cat in the alley and he is explaining what the houses look like. There is a vacant house. It has a cozy garden. A stone statue of a bird. The bird has its wings open.

enjoying this book, the characters are developing. I think Cameron is Tova's grandson

I like it. I don’t understand why all these random characters are being used. But I should understand why soon enough. It is kind of “boring” as Tova doesn’t have much going on. Her brother Lars just passed.