I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.