The Tatami Time Machine Blues Quotes

“So it was that our summer proceeded toward its end. It would never be repeated, and even if we used a time machine, we could never get it back.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Time Machine Blues: A Novel

“But we have no idea what’ll happen in the future. If we know nothing, we can do anything. Maybe that’s what freedom means.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Time Machine Blues

“I tried thinking of time as a book,' Akashi said as she looked up into the sky. 'The reason it seems to flow from past to future is that that’s the only way we can experience it. For example, if there were a book here, we wouldn’t be able to grasp all its content at once. All we can do is turn the pages and read them one at a time. But the content itself is already inside the book.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Time Machine Blues

“Why do time machines appeal to our hearts so? Because time is the most fundamental puzzle to mankind, as well as a universal restraint that no one can escape. Everyone’s day has only twenty-four hours, and you can kick and scream all you like, but the sand in the hourglass will fall without end; a summer once passed will never come again.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Time Machine Blues

“There’s nothing so worthless to speak of as a love mature.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Time Machine Blues