Twinkle Twinkle

Loving and trusting an another person is a reckless thing. Even insane.

Love alone helped us get through life. Without it, life was simply too haphazard.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think it's reckless to love and trust another person. It's clearly foolhardy. I'd like it very much if the many daredevils who go ahead anyway, enjoyed this book.

What I couldn’t stand was not that I couldn’t sleep with Mutsuki, but that Mutsuki was so calm and kind about everything. The feeling I had that I was embracing water came not from the loneliness of a sexless marriage, but from the complex we both had about it – the suffocating need to be sensitive to each other’s feelings the whole time.

And besides, it’ll be cool if his wife and his boyfriend visited him at the same time.

They’d been together for twelve years, Kon said, and he’d never once seen what sort of face Mutsuki wore during work.

Mutsukiiii!” Shoko shouted. “You want to try some of this fish food? It’s pretty gross and dry and stinky, but you can kind of feel what it’s like to be a goldfish.

Just when I’m least expecting it, she’ll blurt out something really aggressive and confrontational. Next thing I know, her eyes are welling up with tears again for no obvious reason, and she’s looking over at me with this horrible pathetic look in her eyes.

Everything will be fine once you have your first child.

Age-old customs were quite romantic in her opinion.

She was not someone who could ever fake cheerfulness. First a look of complete surprise spread over her features, as i to say, I never even dreamed you would come home, followed by a slow smile. Ah, now I remember, it seemed to say.