The Waiting Years Quotes

“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”
― Fumiko Enchi, The Waiting Years

“What do you want with children?" she longed to whisper to Suga. "They only tie you more tightly to the wheel of fate.”
― Fumiko Enchi, The Waiting Years