The Future is Japanese Quotes

“Mono no aware, my son, is an empathy with the universe.”
― Ken Liu, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching.”
― Ken Liu, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“Individual stones are not heroes, but all the stones together are heroic.”
― Ken Liu, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed.”
― Ken Liu, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”
― Ken Liu, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“she likes the sound of languages other than English.”
― Ken Liu, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“I would like a window seat,” I said, imagining the stars streaming by.”
― Ken Liu, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.”
― Nick Mamatas, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“Personally, I don’t bother with anything cheap—my mother always said cheap was dear in the long run—but some people aren’t fussy.”
― Nick Mamatas, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

“Wataru Tsurumi’s Complete Manual of Suicide.”
― Nick Mamatas, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan