You can't go anywhere if you resign yourself to being attacked.

“There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into t…”

“If I had my way, me too,” Sumire said, beaming. “But whatcan you do? Wonderful …”

“I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one …”

“Everything we had built up came crashing down. In one split second, everything …”