“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, of course, at the film distributor where she worked before getting married, too. Coming up to you like they were your best friend and you shared all your confidences, they would start running people down right… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share
“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
