Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.

If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich... I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.

And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.