If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up..

Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go….

Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down the the lan….

Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I ….

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling..

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water..

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain….

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth..

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle..

Over and over, we begin again..

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free..

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it..

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as ….

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there..

People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this ….

Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing i….

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider..

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world..

it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely….

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love,….

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within..