You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me..

Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one see….

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?.

Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. An….

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top..

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and agai….

Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dr….

So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of regret even keener, that this t….

I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a char….

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It w….

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you..

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself..

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I h….

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender..

I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors..

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time..

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even tho….

Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of th….

For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But pe….

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are r….

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You h….