50 Quotes by Hiromi Kawakami

Момо выглядит куда более уверенной в себе, нежели я. В ней есть убежденность в том, как правильно жить дальше. Эта убежденность существует, пока дочь не знает, что стоит на краю пропасти.

- Are el un haiku: "Pe marea întunecată / Țipătul unei rațe / Ușor alb

All translation is mistranslation. But maybe there should be a second part to that phrase. All conversation is misunderstanding. I think about the discrepancies that will always exist in the gaps between languages whenever I go anywhere outside Japan, anywhere where Japanese, my native language, isn’t spoken. But even when I use my native language, the same thing does apply. All language is misunderstanding. In degrees.

No, little boys are much wimpier than little girls.

Up until now, I thought I had enjoyed my life alone, somehow.

I kissed the girl on the lips, as if to suck her breath inside me. When I did this, the girl wilted, ever so slightly. In my arms, gradually she became lighter, and more transparent. The smell of lilies rose up, filling my breast, overwhelming me. The taste of the kiss was so sweet, I couldn't stop–even thoughI knew she would go on wilting if I continued. The girl was wilting by the instant, and something thick and strong was filling my breast.

Sucked in and turned around by the blades, the night at first flows smoothly, but then it starts to take on a denser consistency. Already the night was nearly halfway through its course, so a good portion of it had hardened. Because of this, as I walked through it, it gave me none of the easy, buoyant feeling you get in the early-evening hours. Something about it seemed creaky. But that was, in its own way, typical of the night too.

Del mismo modo que una pequeña ola puede desencadenar un tsunami en la otra punta del océano, una tontería puede provocar una discusión en el momento más inesperado.

Once I've decided that I'm in love with all of someone -- once I stop making value judgments about this thing being good or that being bad -- it gets better. I can just be in love.