She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.