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Hiromi Kawakami

The Briefcase

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    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.
  • aicirtaPhas quotedlast year
    “Would you consider a relationship with me, based on a premise of love?”
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    A grown woman would know how to get warm in a situation like this. But, for the moment, I was a child and helpless.
  • 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.
  • 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
    Even a cracked pot has a lid that fits.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    Sensei, I hope we see each other again one day, I say. And from the ceiling, Sensei replies, Surely we shall see each other one day
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    We also went to Disneyland, of course. As we were watching the evening parade, Sensei shed a few tears. I did too. Each of us, though together, was probably thinking of different things that made us cry.

    “There is something wistful about the lights at night,” Sensei said as he blew his nose on a big white handkerchief.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    t wasn’t about being kind to me; rather, it was born from a teacherly attitude of being willing to listen to my opinion without prejudice. I found this considerably more wonderful than just being nice to me.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    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.
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