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Hiromi Kawakami

  • Diana Cathas quotedlast year
    Even a cracked pot has a lid that fits.
  • Diana Cathas quotedlast year
    Forcing myself to make conversation felt like standing on a cliff, peering over the edge, about to tumble down headfirst.
  • Diana Cathas quotedlast year
    kiss wasn’t unpleasant. Maybe not unpleasant, but I wasn’t happy about it. Rather than happy, it made me feel a little lonely.
  • aicirtaPhas quotedlast year
    A grown woman would know how to get warm in a situation like this. But, for the moment, I was a child and helpless.
  • aicirtaPhas quotedlast year
    “Would you consider a relationship with me, based on a premise of love?”
  • aicirtaPhas quotedlast year
    Enveloped in Sensei’s warm and dry embrace, I wanted to laugh and I wanted to cry. But I didn’t laugh and I didn’t cry anymore either. All I did was be still there in Sensei’s arms.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    He would write something in chalk, like the first line of The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon: In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    “My wife was the kind of person who didn’t think things through.”

    “I see.”

    “She just loved the things she loved, and hated the things she hated.”
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    “I feel pity for these batteries that worked so hard for my benefit, and I can’t throw them away. It seems a shame to get rid of them the moment they die, after these batteries have illuminated my lights, signaled my sounds, and run my motors.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    “What kind of market did you say it is?” I asked while pouring saké into my cup.

    “There’s only one kind of market, of course. You know, where they sell any kind of household item.”
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