The Place Promised in Our Early Days Quotes

“She'd told me that, once-- that she had always felt loss approaching. I was still in middle school, and there was no way I could really have understood what she meant, but those words had sent shivers through my soul.”
― Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

“I used to be like that, too, long ago-- cheerful and unreserved. My treasures were dumb little things and deliriously fun.”
― Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

“It was a terminal station during the commuter rush. The backs of the crowd formed a sort of current, surging through the automatic ticket gate one after another, and the sight didn't surprise me or trigger any real emotion. When had I stopped being startled by how many people lived in one town, each of them with their own separate lives? I was aware of the fatigue I was carrying. I was thirty-one, and the weariness of those thirty-one years had seeped into me. It wasn't that big a deal. But it was not nothing, either.”
― Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

“Something huge had happened in the world and in history, right in our backyard. But (at least at the time) the only world I could grasp was small and limited, a modest, palm-sized thing.”
― Makoto Shinkai, The Place Promised in Our Early Days