More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.
I knew the feeling. That was just how I felt about the eight years of my life between college and marrying Yukiko. One thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there’s no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.
“Hajime,” she began, “the sad truth is that some things can’t go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can’t go back to the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that’s how it will stay for ever.”
“Lovers born under an unlucky star,”
mouthing off
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star,” I said. “It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t
even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
“South of the border, west of the sun,”
Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality – call it an alternate reality – to prove the reality of events.
