

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84

“Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.
“Sorry, clumsy,� she says.
“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.�
Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man �
She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her � I always did. “Who are you, George?�
“Someone you knew in another life, honey.”
― 11/22/63
“Sorry, clumsy,� she says.
“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.�
Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man �
She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her � I always did. “Who are you, George?�
“Someone you knew in another life, honey.”
― 11/22/63

“Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.”
― Blankets
― Blankets

“And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west.
The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.”
― The Elephant Vanishes
The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.”
― The Elephant Vanishes
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