The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.