An I-Novel Quotes

“I had stayed closer to Japan than she had. I yearned for Japan, Japanese food, Japanese people; I loved the Japanese language and, more than anything, Japanese literature written with the three distinct systems of Japanese writing: graceful hiragana ひらがな, spartan katakana カタカナ, and dense kanji 漢字. Someday soon I was to return to Japan, to the country that held all things dear to me, and when I did, then at last I would awaken deep, slumbering yearnings and embark triumphantly and ecstatically on a new life—my real life. Yet that day never came, and I had ended up spending an unconscionable portion of my one-and-only life on foreign soil, far from where I was meant to be.”
― Minae Mizumura, An I-Novel