More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Quotes

“People forget all kinds of things. They live by forgetting. Yet our thoughts endure, the way waves leave traces in the sand.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“When I’m sad, I read. I can go on reading for hours. Reading quiets the turmoil I feel inside and brings me peace. Because when I’m immersed in the world of a book, no one can get hurt,”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Listen, life is short. In the story of your life, you’ve got to avoid people like that. Choose to be with the people who really choose you, people who see you as irreplaceable.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Thank you for crying over me," Momoko said. "When you're sad, don't try to hold it in. It's okay to cry a lot. The tears are there because you've got to go on living. You're going on living, which means there'll be more things to cry about. They'll come at you from all sides. So don't ever try to hide from the sadness. When it comes, cry it out. It's better to keep moving forward with that sadness; that's what it means to live.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Sharing your thoughts with someone seems so simple, but at times it can be surprisingly difficult. Even more so when it’s someone you care so much for.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“If you won’t open your heart, it’s selfish to expect the other person alone to open theirs to you, don’t you think?”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“how crucial in life it is to not hide from your emotions but to face them.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“We're alive. There's no stopping time. So we have to keep on moving forward.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“In the space of a few days, it felt like winter had arrived, and my favorite season was over. But that wasn't so bad.
Because from here on, whether it was winter or spring or what- ever season might come, I believed these gentle days would continue. And all the people I love would spend them laughing together.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Thank you for crying over me,” Momoko said.“When you’re sad, don’t try to hold it in. It’s okay to cry a lot. The tears are there because you’ve got to go on living. You’re going on living, which means there’ll be more things to cry about. They’ll come at you from all sides. So don’t ever try to hide from the sadness. When it comes, cry it out. It’s better to keep moving forward with that sadness; that’s what it means to live.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“When I wasn’t travelling, I spent all my time reading.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“It somehow feels incredibly luxurious to sit in your favorite coffee shop, reading a book, waiting for your boyfriend.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“People are full of contradictions.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“I think that my uncle tried to study these authors’ lives in such depth because he was trying to learn something from them, and lurking behind that desire was the hope that he might find a clue to help him understand his own life. From what I’ve heard, when my uncle was young, he went through a profound existential crisis. He agonized over it.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“A writer I like left behind a passage like this in one of his books:
"People forget all kinds of things. They live by forgetting. Yet our thoughts endure, the way waves leave traces in the sand." Deep down, I hope that's true. It gives me great hope.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“When you're sad, don't try to hold it in. It's okay to cry a lot. The tears are there because you've got to go on living. You're going on living, which means there'll be more things to cry about. They'll come at you from all sides. So don't ever try to hide from the sadness. When it comes, cry it out. It's better to keep moving forward with that sadness; that's what it means to live.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“There were places I wanted to go and people I wanted to see. And there was a place that was always ready to welcome me back. I can’t think of anything more wonderful than that.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Here in Tokyo’s neighborhood of secondhand bookstores is our little bookshop. It’s full of little stories. And it holds within its walls the thoughts and hopes and feelings of a great many people.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“But my worry is that after I'm gone, he won't let himself cry, and he won't let himself be dependent on anyone, and that he'll live trying to bear the burden of this grief himself. Because he's a very kind and a very foolish man.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“There are people in this world whose hobby is astronomy and who find the vastness of the universe thrilling. And then, on the other hand, there are people whose hobby leads them to go to great lengths to collect these”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“My uncle explained that back when bookbinding was still generally done by hand, the author would verify the number of copies and give his approval to the printing by stamping the books with his own seal.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“As time went on, he taught me how thrilling reading can be, and how crucial in life it is to not hide from your emotions but to face them.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“O fascínio de um homem é proporcional ao número dos seus segredos.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“It somehow feels incredibly luxurious to sit in your favorite coffee shop”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Nah, what’s the use of leaving a bunch of pictures behind?”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Listen, life is short. Choose to be with the people who really choose you, people who see you as irreplaceable. That's the story you want.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“It’s not right for us to start wondering what kind of job people have or what sort of life they lead.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“«Las personas vamos olvidando muchas cosas. Gracias a olvidar muchas cosas, podemos seguir viviendo. Sin embargo, las cosas que nos marcan el corazón son como las olas que van dejando un rastro sobre la arena y siempre están ahí».”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Una velada en la librería Morisaki

“—Cuando me entra la tristeza, leo un libro. Horas y horas. Si estoy leyendo, mi corazón se va calmando poco a poco y recupero la estabilidad. Por mucho que me implique en el universo del libro, no puedo hacer daño a nadie, y eso me tranquiliza.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Una velada en la librería Morisaki

“Since I couldn’t talk to anyone about this, I couldn’t find a way out of my problems, and little by little the sadness inside me grew until it felt like a massive balloon pressing down on me every night when I got into bed.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop