What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.