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"...[S]ome in the village do not want to ask themselves questions about what is true or not true, or to hear anyone say that truth may be complicated.”

"I knew with each passing day, I was one day closer to losing my mother. I was trying to hold on to her like a child attempting to hold on to sand with fists clenched, grasping tight. What I would have loved to do was hold her with a cupped, nearly open palm, the way you might hold water, in recognition of the softness, the fluidity that love and death require."

"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."

"It was not essential, I thought, to use one particular set of words or way to say them, but rather to use the words that were right in that particular moment, in those particular circumstances."

I can't handle this book anymore. I'm quitting. I think I would have LOVED this book when I was in middle school, right down to the random unintelligible japanese. As an adult with standards, I can't even manage to skim the rest of this.

left my kindle at my boyfriend's place so it's time to dust off my physical bookshelves. have been reading a ton of intergalactic capitalism/colonialism type books recently. this novel looks sci-fi adjacent and is by a japanese author (i tend to enjoy translated fiction) so... yomimashou!

incredibly bored so far. this better pick up