How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
I promised to tell you how one falls in love.
A novel is a mirror walking down a road
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.