26 Quotes by Laura Imai Messina

It isn't just the best things that come to an end, but also the worst.

If we are destined to lost certain things, wouldn't it be better to do without them from the start?[Takeshi's mother]

Anyone who has experienced great grief wonders at some point which is more difficult, learning or unlearning. There was a time when Yui wouldn't have been able to say, but now she was sure it was the second.

A man once told me that death is a very personal thing...' Suzuki-san said. 'To some extent, we try to build our lives exactly like everyone else's. But not death. Everyone reacts to death in their own way...

She [Yui] was convinced that nostalgia had nothing to do with memory, that we actually feel it most strongly for things we have never experienced.

...fragility does not reside in things so much as in flesh. An object can be repaired or replaced, but the body cannot. Perhaps it is stronger than the soul, which once broken can remain so forever, but it is weaker than wood, lead, or iron.

A famous citation from the American psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916-1988) reads: 'We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. And we need twelve hugs a day for growth.

There was no addition or subtraction in life that did not require some time for adjustment.

Ecco come nasceva la gioia. Era in una parola restituita, che sempre le avrebbe ricordato il prima, e avrebbe cementificato il dopo.