“I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“This is not the place for me. I really think that I don't belong here. But I don't know where I want to go, and I don't have legs that can carry me somewhere.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“I love you. I can't remember when I fell in love with you but very naturally, I had fallen in love with you before I knew it. The first time I met you, you were a strong and kind boy. You always protected me.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“In the end, the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere.
Every minute seemed like an eternity.
Time felt crept by slowly, with clear malice towards me. All I could do was grip my teeth and try to hold back my tears...
Akari... Please, don't wait for me...
If you'd just go home.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“The feelings were still fresh as if it all just happened yesterday.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“I’ve been worried for a long time. I’ve just been doing what I could. I don’t really have much choice.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
“Yesterday, I had a dream... A dream I have had since long ago. In that dream, we had yet to turn 13. We were in a vast countryside, completely covered with snow. The lights of the houses extended far into the distance, a dazzling sight. We walked on the thick caprpet of fresh snow, but did not leave any footprints. And like that... 'Someday we will be able to watch the cherry blossoms together again'. Both of us, without any doubt... That's what we thought.”
― Makoto Shinkai, quote from 5 Centimeters per Second
Makoto Shinkai
Born place: in Nagano, Japan
Born date February 9, 1973
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“How very American, he thought, to look at a disease as homosexual or heterosexual, as if viruses had the intelligence to choose between different inclinations of human behavior.”
― Randy Shilts, quote from And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
“So poorly did you know yourself that you were always surprised at how you looked in photographs or how you sounded on voice mail. In this way, much of your existence took place in the eyes, ears, and fingertips of others. And now that you’ve left the Earth, you are stored in scattered heads around the globe. Here in this Purgatory, all the people with whom you’ve ever come in contact are gathered. The scattered bits of you are collected, pooled, and unified. The mirrors are held up in front of you. Without the benefit of filtration, you see yourself clearly for the first time. And that is what finally kills you.”
― David Eagleman, quote from Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“Interesting choice," Sullivan said. He slid his gaze over to Paul, who was drumming his fingers on the table in a manic, caffeine-inspired way and blinking a lot. Paul wasn't out-and-out singing along with the king of the dead, but he might as well have put out a big neon sign saying "How's My Driving? Ask Me About My Nerves: 1-800-WIG-N-OUT."
--James”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
“If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing”
― John Buchan, quote from The 39 Steps
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