Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.