The Book of Tokyo Quotes

“When problems at home or relationships at work get strange, every morning you can take in the air through your nose, feel the sunlight rest on your eyelids, feel your bed with your fingers. Just being alive – it’s great. That I just continue to be alive is great. Morning is absolutely beautiful.”
― Michael Emmerich, The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction

“You need other people, to give your own life a sense of purpose. No, that’s not it. People just want to be close.”
― Michael Emmerich, The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction

“Observing is an action that you can lose yourself in, but is existence… is existence an action?”
― Michael Emmerich, The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction

“I spent most of my time acquiring books, like a second-hand dealer who didn’t specialise in any particular variety. I worked for a daily wage and, once I had set enough aside, would use the money to buy books which, eventually, I would on sell for extra money to buy even more books with.”
― Michael Emmerich, The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction