Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.