When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.
When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s like musical chairs.
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in...
There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage of acute loss.
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life, Eri finally said. And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn’t...
The total amount of time available is especially limited. The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost right and left. If you have money, you can buy time. You can even b...
The silence lent a faint weight to the air. As though I were sitting alone, at the bottom of the sea.
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
That’s what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.
Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no...
She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her...
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
Rain falls and the flowers bloom. No rain, they wither up. Bugs are eaten by lizards, lizards are eaten by birds. But in the end, every one of them dies. They die and dry up. One generation dies, and...
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?I wouldn't know, I said.Nor would we, said the scientists.