I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.