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She winced. I’m glad you came. I didn’t know what to make of the inconsistency between her reaction and her words. You must have a lot of questions, I said. She shook her head. I just want to make sur...
Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward. —Kierkegaard
I walked the short distance to Nogizaka, then strolled up and down Gaienhigashi-dori. It took awhile, but I finally spotted it. There was no sign, only a small red rose on a black awning. The entrance...
I thought of how Midori had once articulated the idea of mono no aware, a sensibility that, though frequently obscured during cherry blossom viewing by the cacophony of drunken doggerel and generator-...
I picked up the earthen cup and went to take a sip. Not like that, Miyamoto said. Let it cool a little. Give yourself a moment to appreciate the aroma, the feel of the bowl in your hands. I was a litt...
I headed back to Shun Tak to catch the next ferry to Macau. I tried not to think too much about what I was about to do. Charging an ambush is counterinstinctive: when your lizard brain identifies the...
I closed my eyes, listened to the music, and began sipping the coffee. It was ungodly strong but also delicious, and I realized someone had employed a lot of care to impart that much richness without...
He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite direction, I would have read it as a lie.
Gavin de Becker had written a great book on the topic—The Gift of Fear.
Caligula ne demişti? Oderint dum meduant. Bizden korktukları sürece, bırakın bizden nefret etsinler.
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And maybe on some level his approach was manipulative, but what mattered most was the way it made her feel. Like he understood her, without ever having to be heavy-handed about it.
And I resented you for that, she went on, because I’ve always believed hate is such an unworthy emotion. So weak and ultimately pointless. I marveled briefly at how innocent a life someone would have...
No matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.
Your biggest problem would be getting the victim up to the roof with no one seeing it. Unless you had some way of tricking him into meeting you on a rooftop or otherwise knowing in advance that he was...
You start slow. You find the subject’s limits and get him to spend some time there. He gets used to it. Before long, the limits have moved. You never take him more than a centimeter beyond. You make i...
You forget the things you want to remember and remember the things you want to forget.
When you’ve known someone only briefly, even if intensely, death comes as a shock, but not a particularly long or deep one. After all, there was no time for the person in question to become woven tigh...
We took a cab to the hotel. We looked at each other on the way but neither of us spoke. I checked us in, and when we got to the room, we left the lights off. It seemed natural that we should walk over...