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“Together we'll make magic...Who had conjured whom?She seemed to remember Oliver suggesting this once before, but she hadn't really appreciated the importance of his question. Was she the dream? Was...”
“The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesnt now, then where did it go ?”
“Live. For Now. For the time being.”
“Somewhere Dgen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I dont remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite arbitrary and absurd, but I imagine that when I a...”
“As she stared at the restless pixels on the screen, her impatience grew. This agitation was familiar, a paradoxical feeling that built up inside her when she was spending too much time online, as t...”
“(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, pr...”
“I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew I was on...”
“When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.”
“Jiko: "Surfer, wave, same thing.""That's just stupid, " I said. " A surfer's a person. A wave is a wave. How can they be the same?"Jiko looked out across the ocean to where the water met the sky. "...”
“Maketa, I said, throwing myself down in the sand. I lost. The ocean won.She smiled. Was it a good feeling?Mm, I said.Thats good, she said. Have another rice ball?”
“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”
“It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the ...”
“I write this in the moonlight, straining my ears to hear beyond the cold mechanical clock to the warm biological noises of the night, but my being is attuned only to one thing, the relentless rhyth...”
“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”
“Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way ...”
“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?”
“Otaku (おた) is also a formal way of saying "you". た means "house", and with the honorific お, it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a place...”
“Somewhere Dōgen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don’t remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite arbitrary and absurd, but I imagine that when I...”
“Maketa,” I said, throwing myself down in the sand. “I lost. The ocean won.”She smiled. “Was it a good feeling?”“Mm,” I said.“That’s good,” she said. “Have another rice ball?”
