Like the sound of a velvet curtain being drawn aside on a peaceful morning to let sunlight wake someone very special to you.

“Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world.…”

“إننا كائنات غير معصومة، ولا نتوب عن الأخطاء.”

“What season?” I asked. “A delayed adolescence, I guess. When I get up in the mo…”

“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jun…”