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I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.

Natsuo Kirino

I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.

You have to be careful, Terauchi always warned us, or you'll wind up in some database. Then adults will control you.

Natsuo Kirino

You have to be careful, Terauchi always warned us, or you'll wind up in some database. Then adults will control you.

About Author
Natsuo Kirino (桐野 夏生, Kirino Natsuo) (born October 7, 1951, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.

My lascivious blood leaves me no choice but to lust for men. No matter how common I become, how ugly, how old, as long as there is life in my body I will go on wanting men. That's just my fate. Even i...

Natsuo Kirino

My lascivious blood leaves me no choice but to lust for men. No matter how common I become, how ugly, how old, as long as there is life in my body I will go on wanting men. That's just my fate. Even i...

I realized that the last thing I wanted to do was go home. A weird feeling—like on the one hand I wanted to go back to that other world, but at the same time didn’t care if my connections to it were c...

Natsuo Kirino

I realized that the last thing I wanted to do was go home. A weird feeling—like on the one hand I wanted to go back to that other world, but at the same time didn’t care if my connections to it were c...

It seems in the final analysis that people who get involved in religion are only after their own personal happiness.

Natsuo Kirino

It seems in the final analysis that people who get involved in religion are only after their own personal happiness.

The thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.

Natsuo Kirino

The thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

Natsuo Kirino

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of the doll-like woman who was me. Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's...

Natsuo Kirino

Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of the doll-like woman who was me. Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's...

The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.

Natsuo Kirino

The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.

Tags: forgetting, mourning

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

Natsuo Kirino

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will neve...

Natsuo Kirino

For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will neve...

Era sufficiente rimuovere una piccola pietra scaldata dal sole per scoprire la terra umida e fresca. E lei, in quel momento, voleva assaporare a fondo l'oscurità del lato nascosto al sole.

Natsuo Kirino

Era sufficiente rimuovere una piccola pietra scaldata dal sole per scoprire la terra umida e fresca. E lei, in quel momento, voleva assaporare a fondo l'oscurità del lato nascosto al sole.

Did you pick out this outfit? he asked, looking at her clothes.No, she said. She was wearing a cheap, bright red dress that she'd been given by another girl from the bar who shared the same apartment....

Natsuo Kirino

Did you pick out this outfit? he asked, looking at her clothes.No, she said. She was wearing a cheap, bright red dress that she'd been given by another girl from the bar who shared the same apartment....

Com'è facile cadere per un essere umano, non trovi? mormorò, e Masako le rivolse uno sguardo pieno di compassione.Sì. Poi è come scendere precipitosamente per una china con una bicicletta senza freni....

Natsuo Kirino

Com'è facile cadere per un essere umano, non trovi? mormorò, e Masako le rivolse uno sguardo pieno di compassione.Sì. Poi è come scendere precipitosamente per una china con una bicicletta senza freni....

Nihai analizde, dine bulaşan insanlar yalnızca kendi kişisel mutluluklarının peşinde gibidir. Yanılıyor muyum?

Natsuo Kirino

Nihai analizde, dine bulaşan insanlar yalnızca kendi kişisel mutluluklarının peşinde gibidir. Yanılıyor muyum?

But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin.

Natsuo Kirino

But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin.

To live and imagine. That's the job left for those of us who've survived.

Natsuo Kirino

To live and imagine. That's the job left for those of us who've survived.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

Natsuo Kirino

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately c...

Natsuo Kirino

And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately c...

Tags: japanese

All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to und...

Natsuo Kirino

All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to und...