25 Quotes by Takashi Hiraide

Then she told me about a philosopher who said that observation is at its core an expression of love which doesn’t get caught up in sentiment.

All I want is to know what happened – I want to somehow grasp every detail of the events of that day, that one day like a tiny dewdrop... but now it’s all engulfed in the profound darkness of time.

There’s a photographer who says cat lovers always believe their own cat is better looking than anyone else’s. According to her, they’ve all got blinders on.

Chibi stava entrando piano piano nella nostra vita come un rivolo d’acqua che penetri inosservato dalla finestra lasciata socchiusa, e si spanda scivolando su un’impercettibile pendenza, imbevendola.

There are a few cat lovers among my close friends, and I have to admit that there have been moments when that look of excessive sweet affection oozing from around their eyes has left me feeling absolutely disgusted. Having devoted themselves to cats, body and soul, they seem at times utterly indifferent to shame.

My wife gazed back. Then she thought of how they would soon have to part, and all the conflicted feelings came rushing in. “After all, she isn’t really ours... But maybe I wish she really were... “. Chibi stared intently with her deep green eyes at the clear liquid flowing from my wife’s eyes and rolling down her cheeks – these human things called tears.

I wonder where it all comes from – this need to go to the place where the body has been laid to rest. It’s the need to reconfirm how precious someone was and how irreplaceable, and the desire to reconnect with them on a different plane.