Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

Music’s a wood you walk through.

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.