The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

I'm not so weird to me.

When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.