He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.