She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.
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Zum Autor"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?"
"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."
"I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me."
"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."
"Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it."
"I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him."