I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
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Zum Autor"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
"Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights."
"All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?"
"I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him."
"My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it."
"As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express."