As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.” — Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (Kodansha USA Inc; 1st edition, January 1, 1994)
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind. — Murasaki Shikibu
From that first hellowe are preparing to leave.Everyone we know,they’re an image that lingersas we quickly blink our eyes. — Michael Boiano, Autumn Garden: A Tanka Collection (Black Turtle Press, 2020)
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (KNOPF.; First Edition edition 1997)
The most he could do was create a place where his heart–devoid now of any depth or weight–could be tethered, to keep from wandering aimlessly. — Haruki Murakami, from “Kino,” Men Without Women: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
The most he could do was create a place where his heart–devoid now of any depth or weight–could be tethered, to keep from wandering aimlessly. — Haruki Murakami, from “Kino,” Men Without Women: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried? — Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go. (Vintage March 14, 2006)
I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. (KNOPF.; First Edition edition 1997)
Nothing is more beautiful than what disappears before our eyes. — Naomi Kawase, from the screenplay Radiance (Comme des Cinéma & Kino Films, 2017)
I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time. — Akira Kurosawa, Iriku/To Live. (1952)
The Vale of Soul-Making 