42 Quotes by Hiro Arikawa

Humans who think we don’t understand them are the stupid ones.

Cats are realists.

If you have to consider what’s going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome.

Feeling the weight of a cat’s paws pressing into your shoulders in the middle of the night – not much beats that.

Our silver van was like a magic carriage. Every time I got into it, it carried me to a place I’d never been before. At that moment, we were without a doubt the greatest travelers in the world. And I was the world’s greatest traveling cat.

At that moment, we were without doubt the greatest travellers in the world. And I was the world’s greatest travelling cat.

As I explained earlier, most animals are multilingual when it comes to listening, but reading is beyond us. Reading and writing seem to belong to a special linguistic system that only humans possess.

When an animal’s life is over, it rests where it falls, and it often seems to me that humans are such worriers, to think of preparing a place for people to sleep when they are dead. If you have to consider what’s going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome. Satoru drove the van through.

Nana, you said his name is?” “Yeah. Because his tail’s hooked into the shape of a seven.” I didn’t think we needed to explain the origin of my name to every passing stranger, but Satoru was always so conscientious when it came to things like that.