Record of a Night Too Brief Quotes

“No matter how much I poured into the cup, it never filled. And then I realized that the liquid I assumed to be coffee had, unbeknownst to me, turned into night.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“It wasn’t that I wasn’t there I was there right by you You just didn’t hear me no matter how loudly I spoke You looked around when I prodded you You reacted to my touch But you didn’t see me It was a mystery to me my being invisible to you”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“Maybe the only reason I kept searching for her was that I had begun searching for her.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“Sucked in and turned around by the blades, the night at first flows smoothly, but then it starts to take on a denser consistency. Already the night was nearly halfway through its course, so a good portion of it had hardened. Because of this, as I walked through it, it gave me none of the easy, buoyant feeling you get in the early-evening hours. Something about it seemed creaky. But that was, in its own way, typical of the night too.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Nadepnęłam na węża

“I kissed the girl on the lips, as if to suck her breath inside me. When I did this, the girl wilted, ever so slightly. In my arms, gradually she became lighter, and more transparent. The smell of lilies rose up, filling my breast, overwhelming me. The taste of the kiss was so sweet, I couldn't stop–even thoughI knew she would go on wilting if I continued. The girl was wilting by the instant, and something thick and strong was filling my breast.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Nadepnęłam na węża

“We slept deeply, dreaming our dreams, which rose and burst like bubbles many, many times in the space of the night.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night Too Brief

“I had never minded returning at night to a dark apartment, but once you try living with someone, I could see, you do get thoroughly used to it.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night Too Brief

“All very well, I thought. But sometimes you only know what you should take on and what you should not when you don't have the choice.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night Too Brief

“I’m not the wisest man in the world,” he said, “but there’s no need to take on responsibility for every stray that comes your way.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“And snakes,” he continued, emphatically, “often pretend to be what they’re not.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“The girl was already showing signs of no longer being a girl.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“The girl became more and more mixed and homogeneous with me, until in the end I lost track of whether the girl was me, or I was the girl. It was only then that I started to love her, and to miss her. I loved and missed something I couldn’t define, some combination of us both.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“The chaos has started,” the girl said to me, joining a stream of people going by her. I watched as she was borne away.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Record of a Night too Brief

“W czasach pradziadka, zdaje się, polerowanie odbywało się w nieco przypadkowy sposób, zdarzało się, że przez kilka miesięcy waza stała niewypolerowana. Z pokolenia na pokolenie procedura stawała się jednak coraz bardziej wyszukana. Było prawie pewne, że obowiązek polerowania wazy przejmie po ojcu najstarszy brat.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Nadepnęłam na węża