Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.