And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?
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...
My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.
Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.
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 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’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.
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.
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...
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....
Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our pare...
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...
I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.
Her beauty was not like that of a bonsai, which achieves its charm by asserting its own will in defiance of the careful bindings that lash and restrict it. How, I wondered, would my grandfather descri...
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...
You see, natural beauty creates such excitement that the existence of the weight is negated. And once it is negated, the heavier it is to bear.
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...
When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for...
Walk around Tokyo and all you see are people trying to sell you something. Tell them okay and before you know you have bought something. Make the mistake of telling your address and now you're on a ma...
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