Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.

Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.