“ Looking back on it now, I'd say one's thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the… Takashi Hiraide
“ He imagined fate as a goddess, capricious and fickle, or as a river, which could flood at any moment Takashi Hiraide
“ Having played to her heart's content, Chibi would come inside and rest for a while. When she began to sleep on the sofa--like a talisman curled gently in the shape of a comma and dug up from a prehist… Takashi Hiraide
“ I wonder where it all comes from--this need to go to the place where the body has been laid to rest. It's the need to reconfirm how precious someone was and how irreplaceable, and the desire to reconn… Takashi Hiraide
