No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.