Six years during which time I'd laid three cats to rest. Burned how many aspirations, bundled up how much suffering in thick sweaters, and buried them in the ground. All in this fathomlessly huge city Tokyo.

“Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from d…”

“Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One per…”

“Everybody’s got something weird about them,” I said.”

“It's the same as a hereditary disease, weakness. No matter how much you underst…”