Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.