And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is real….

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality..

The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to ….

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile..

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else..

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience..

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around..

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change..

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life..

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself..

Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't ….

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years..

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I sai….

I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and ….

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez mu….

I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a b….

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to….

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel ….

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape..

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started..

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience..