Everything seems pointless since you left

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you

I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow.

I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.

It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger

I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.