Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.

Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

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

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.