In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.

Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.