After Dark

by Haruki Murakami

Far from skimming, she seems to be biting off and chewing it one line at a time.

“is that if you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.”

Eri Asai is in a deep, deliberate state of sleep as if her entire body has been enveloped in warm wax.

It has been both handed down from ancient times with darkness and sent back from the future with light.

Heart and mind at the bottom of the sea.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it’s not the same as in daytime.”