Mieko Kawakami

Heaven

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  • lilyhas quoted10 months ago
    Just seeing you, though, I feel, I dunno, happamine.”
  • ciel mhas quoted2 years ago
    Why people don’t print money when they’re broke.
  • Alice Plotnikovahas quotedlast month
    started crying all night long. Not really consciously crying, so much as feeling tears drip from my eyes, like when you realize that you’re sweating.
  • Alice Plotnikovahas quotedlast month
    At first, my desire to die was a desire to disappear. I wanted to erase myself and feel real peace. But if dying doesn’t actually involve a moment where you die, could I really disappear? Wouldn’t death basically mean wandering around forever, in something like a dream? It made me wonder: who could tell the difference between living in this world and living in a dream?
  • Alice Plotnikovahas quotedlast month
    When someone dies, they don’t even know they’re dead. Because they never see it happen, nobody ever really dies
  • Alice Plotnikovahas quotedlast month
    In which case, living is really just waiting to die.
  • Alice Plotnikovahas quotedlast month
    He shook his arm to make his watch slip back down to his wrist and raised his voice to tell the class that he had forgotten to tell us that we had health today instead of gym, so come back after lunch.
  • Oliver EsseJhas quoted5 months ago
    I couldn’t stop crying. My tears fell on Kojima’s face, mixing with her tears and the rain. But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.
  • Oliver EsseJhas quoted5 months ago
    . There’s meaning in overcoming pain and suffering. That’s right, Momose said in a deep voice, and you’ve got to drag everybody into it.
  • Oliver EsseJhas quoted5 months ago
    There’s meaning in overcoming pain and suffering.
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