126 quotes found
Writer · Japanese · 1964
Japanese writer (born 1964)
“There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things we said, these conversations, at any moment, they could stop being possible, and so ...”
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defe...”
“Ill never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I havent a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are p...”
“I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.”
“I wished my heart would break and get it over with.”
“There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you cant bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.”
“We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps its more accurate to say that we make the choice unconsciously. I think I did but now I knew it because now ...”
“I was frightened of so many things, in my vanity, that ultimately i couldn't protect myself any other way. Try not to be like that, okay? Be sure to keep your tummy warm, try to relax, both your he...”
“It was only after my head started reeling and my body started weaving and I tumbled into bed that I'd hear that soothing voice singing...The reverbations of that voice wandered sweetly, softly, wor...”
“Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.”
“I can't imagine a life without a story.”
“The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if its a kitchen, if its a place where they make food, its fine with me. Ideally it should be well br...”
“I didn't care whether I had gotten dressed, or what state my hair was in or anything it didn't matter. I felt close to him, and I'd come to regard him as just another part of the scenery.”
“Nakajima's presence didn't put any pressure on me, either. Quite the opposite: there was a warmth in the core of my chest when he was around.”
“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot ...”
“it'll be this kind of deep blueshe said. The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words the color of a completely closed-in night”
“The only thing Id understand right from the very beginning was that our love was supported by loneliness. That neither one of us could haul ourselves up out of the deadly numbness we felt when we l...”
“Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for me to recapture that feelinglife wasnt so easy anymore. Small things pricked my...”
“I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you,...”
“Love is love. It doesn't matter what kind it is.”
