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“Night ended, morning came, and as I looked out on the blueness spreading into the corners of the sky, I thought about what Mitsutsuka had told me, about all the light that was there and yet impossible to see. I worked all day until the twilight snuck up on me, another day like all the others turning into night.”

“When I start to feel emotional about something, I can’t tell if I’m actually feeling that way. What if it’s just something somebody wrote in a book? Or maybe a line or a performance from some movie . . . Either way, I get this feeling like I’m quoting somebody else’s work.”

“I thought about the books that I had looked through in the bookstore. It occurred to me that they were full of things that people wanted to say to other people, or things people wanted somebody to say to them.”

“Floating in the tide of summer washing over us were signs and streetlights, lights from cars and countless other lights, but the light coming from Mitsutsuka’s shirt was foreign to the summer night.”