When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no id...
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Think it over carefully. This is very important, I say, because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of the mind. Do you follow? When you say you believe, you allow the possibility...
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But I don’t think that’s the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live...
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybod...
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
But still, Ayumi said, it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.You may be right, Aomame said, But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of co...
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and s...
Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a...
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the co...
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow
Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.