To live and imagine. That's the job left for those of us who've survived.
This didn't make me sad exactly - it was more a feeling that my own world was too simple, too smooth, too boring and worthless. The most I could do was have another name, Ninna Hori.
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.
I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.
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....
And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?
I got up on time this morning, boarded the train, changed to the subway, and worked like an aggressive career woman in one of the biggest corporations around. At night I transformed into a prostitute...
I don’t think I could blurt it out to Yuzan or Kirarin, though. They’d just say, Hmm. You could be right, their eyes dreamily looking around for a bit, but then, as soon as the subject changed, they’d...
Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way.
I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.
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...
But even a nice mom and dad like this can't really sense how their child's been assaulted by commercialism ever since she was little, how she's lived in fear of being eaten alive by the morons around...
Bu yolu seçti, çünkü insan alemini yöneten kurallar hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinmek istiyordu. İnsanların nasıl böylesine karanlık ve bencil tutkular besleyebileceğini anlamak istiyordu.Bütün insanl...
Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Šla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo išče, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Jošijina, in prepričana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. Če so se...
Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.
Kazue's journals depict an absolutely sublime struggle, the struggle between an individual and the rest of the world. Kazue lost the battle, ended up completely alone, and died hungry for some measure...
Karl wasn’t interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima’s father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire....
I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to le...
I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.
I want to go home.' The moment the smell hit her, the words came into her head. She didn't know exactly what home it was she wanted to go to, certainly not the one she'd just left. But why didn't she...