People From My Neighbourhood Quotes

“Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole edifice to collapse.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

“For the first time in ages, we had a no-gravity alert. ‘This is the Disaster Preparedness Office speaking. We have been informed that there is an eighty per cent chance that a no-gravity event will take place between two and five o’clock this afternoon. Please remain indoors during those hours. If you must go out for reason, please make sure you are well weighted down. This has been a message from the Disaster Preparedness Office.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

“Humans change over time.
I certainly have. I’ve aged and become grumpy.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

“He tried to convince them that, since he was already in his late forties, their marriage might be more of a tea-drinking relationship.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

“You mean they’re ghosts?’
‘Ha-ha-ha. Yep, you could say that, but women are women. They’re still fun to have around, even if they look sort of blurry and don’t have legs.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

“ballast.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People from My Neighborhood: Stories

“According to him, the best remedy for loneliness was an medicine made from a combination of antibiotics eye and boiled broccoli. A prescription was required for the antibiotics, but Dr Miranda said he could give me one whenever I needed it.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

“Since the shadow belonged to a very old man, it toured easily? So when Kiyoshi started running, it began to gasp and wheeze in the most theatrical way. Then it verbally attacked him.
‘The dammed thing’s always threatening me,’ Kiyoshi grumbled. ‘Accused me of trying to kill it, says it’ll send me to hell.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood