It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
I don't know, it's stupid being 20, she said. I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.
Here's what hurst the most, Kafuku said. I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying...
For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see.
If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique sou...
What's really important here, I whispered loudly to myself,is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have
We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when d...
Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.
The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.
It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.
it's a fine moon', she repeated
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very v...
We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort,...
It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.
In the silence of the woods it felt like I could hear the passage of time, of life passing by. One person leaves, another appears. A thought flits away and another takes its place. One image bids fare...
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.
He wasn't so bad when the two of us came to see you, though. He was just his usual self.Because you were there, said Naoko. He was always like that around you. He struggled to keep his weaknesses hidd...
Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and di...