joseph’s Reviews > Spring Snow > Status Update

“I’ve known supreme happiness, and I’m not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn’t it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does? I’ve nothing in common with these ‘new women’. But… if eternity existed, it would be this moment.”

i love reading… ?

“once passion was set in motion according to its own laws, then it was irresistible. this was a theory that would never be accepted by modern law, which took it as self-evident that conscience and reason ruled man.”

randomly turned into a courtroom drama, and of course, it was enthralling

very… detailed…

“something sounded within kiyoaki like a trumpet call: i love satoko.”

lost his wife because of his emotional immaturity #fairs

“as he lay with his head on his pillow, his head was a whirling mass of images. he was faced with the stark realization that from now on he would be alone.”