Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Also, somehow, there doesn't seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I'll cheer for equality later.

What comes deep comes true.

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

I'm a businesswoman at the end of the day.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.