Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?
Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
Noboru Wataya is a person who belongs to a world that is the exact opposite of yours... In a world where you are losing everything, Mr.Okada, Noboru Wataya is gaining everything. In a world where you...
No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you...
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happe...
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who's precious to you.
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs...
My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting sto...
Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the...
I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no.
It's no different from building stations. If something is important enough, a little mistake isn't going to ruin it all, or make it vanish. It might not be perfect, but the first step is actually buil...
It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.
It feels like ancient history, said Naoko. But anyhow, sorry about last night. I don't know, I was a bundle of nerves. I really shouldn't have done that after you came here all the way from Tokyo.Neve...
Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or...
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil, the man said. Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in th...
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
In the afternoon dark clouds suddenly color the sky a mysterious shade and it starts raining hard, pounding the roof and windows of the cabin. I strip naked and run outside, washing my face with soap...