The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

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

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.

But the silence spoke volumes.