Twinkle Twinkle Quotes

“Loving and trusting an another person is a reckless thing. Even insane.”
― Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle Twinkle

“Love alone helped us get through life. Without it, life was simply too haphazard.”
― Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle Twinkle

“To be perfectly honest with you, I think it's reckless to love and trust another person. It's clearly foolhardy.

I'd like it very much if the many daredevils who go ahead anyway, enjoyed this book.”
― Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle Twinkle

“What I couldn’t stand was not that I couldn’t sleep with Mutsuki, but that Mutsuki was so calm and kind about everything. The feeling I had that I was embracing water came not from the loneliness of a sexless marriage, but from the complex we both had about it – the suffocating need to be sensitive to each other’s feelings the whole time.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle

“And besides, it’ll be cool if his wife and his boyfriend visited him at the same time.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle

“They’d been together for twelve years, Kon said, and he’d never once seen what sort of face Mutsuki wore during work.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle

“Mutsukiiii!” Shoko shouted. “You want to try some of this fish food? It’s pretty gross and dry and stinky, but you can kind of feel what it’s like to be a goldfish.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle

“Just when I’m least expecting it, she’ll blurt out something really aggressive and confrontational. Next thing I know, her eyes are welling up with tears again for no obvious reason, and she’s looking over at me with this horrible pathetic look in her eyes.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle

“Everything will be fine once you have your first child.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle

“Age-old customs were quite romantic in her opinion.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle

“She was not someone who could ever fake cheerfulness. First a look of complete surprise spread over her features, as i to say, I never even dreamed you would come home, followed by a slow smile. Ah, now I remember, it seemed to say.”
― Emi Shimokawa, Twinkle Twinkle