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"Everything seems to be speeding up, rushing toward one destination."

"I needed her, he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone"

a void that devours all that's substantial

There's a void inside me, a blank that's slowly expanding, devouring what's left of who I am. I can hear it happening. I'm totally lost, my identity dying. There's no direction where I am, no sky, no ground.

Let a bright light shine in and melt the coldness in your heart. That's what being tough is all about

"there's no war that will end all wars" "War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, selfcontained being. You need to know that"

"Johnnie Walker went inside Nakata. He made me do things I didn't want to. Johnnie Walker used me, but I didn't have the strength to fight it. Because I don't have anything inside me" metaphors , metaphors .

"Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most:

"Everything seems to be speeding up, rushing toward one destination."

"Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around."