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.
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Zum Autor"I'm going to live to be twenty-five,' she said, 'then die."
"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."
"I don't dream. Come to think of it, I haven't had any dreams in a long time."
"I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him."
"...All without any more sound than flipping over a playing card. And sitting in this limo, compared to my fifteen-year-old Volkswagen Beetle I'd bought off a friend, was as quiet as sitting at the bottom of a lake wearing earplugs."
"Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed."