“Every country's different. All that happy talk you hear about understanding one another and people everywhere being basically the same, it's all a bunch of crap. Everybody's different. And if you don't realize that, you're never going to experience anything… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
“She'd encountered people like this before, in college as well as earlier, going all the way back to when she was a little girl—and,… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
“But to me, it's a whole lot more important to find something that makes you unafraid of being alone, rather than to have so… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
“Something about the way Nanako talked reminded Aoi of women her mother's age. Women who took no interest in most of what went on… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
“There's that, too, but more than that, what people are saying about me right now, it's not really about me, it's about them. It's… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
“Every country's different. All that happy talk you hear about understanding one another and people everywhere being basically the same, it's all a bunch… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
“But Aoi found it impossible to fully open herself up to any of her new friends. She could laugh with them, rant with them,… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of getting too close to anyone. To her, closeness represented a loss rather than a gain.” — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
