Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more...
Had I done the right thing by not telling her? Maybe not. Who on earth wanted the right thing anyway? Yet what meaning could there be if nothing was right? If nothing was fair? Fairness is a concept t...
Good question, but no answer. Good questions never have answers.
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for writing as well.
Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.
Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads--at lea...
Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.
Entonces no lo sabía. No sabía que era capaz de herir a alguien tan hondamente que jamás se repusiera. A veces, hay personas que pueden herir a los demás por el mero hecho de existir
Enough of your prattle, the old man said. I cannot abide people who conjure up a raft of excuses, disparaging the efforts of those who have gone out of their way to help them. Such people are common t...
Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of there. But before I could say anything, she suddenly asked me to hold her.'Wh...
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometime...
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
Do you think music has the power to change people? Like you listen to a piece and go through some major change inside? Oshima nodded.Sure, that can happen. We have an experience—like a chemical reacti...
Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?
Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living.
Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.