Nuri’s Reviews > Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again > Status Update

"I close my eyes and feel him with my entire body... I don’t want anything anymore, just to “go on living like that forever... as if we had been born together and never parted."

"I said, Cows always belong to someone, only people can be Nobody’s. Mom … Now, when I wake up in a pool of sweat, most often at daybreak, I start to feel quite clearly that I myself belong to Nobody. My eyes are Nobody’s. My arms are Nobody’s. My legs, skin, nails, lungs, breath, and hair—Nobody’s. It makes me feel terrible."

Chapter 4, Awakenings

You only find God in the details, but only when you have time.


What a blissful book, this is. You cannot anticipate what the next word, sentence, or paragraph would be about.

Page 9, of chapter 2 "Resurrections of Rainy Days at a Tourist Resort"

[...Spending a week at even at the most ordinary of resorts nevertheless transports you into another state of being. You consciously seek this, but it comes unexpectedly, when it comes.]

[...You feel like a roll of film.]

[... This dematerialized state should be relaxing, but for some reason it turns into strenuous work. It seems I’m watching everyone, but me, I’m only being watched by God.]

"... your own people can start to feel like strangers very quickly, and it takes a long time to make a stranger one’s own again."