An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

Will you wait for me forever?

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.