I love you, I really do.

“Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from…”

“It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.”

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time…”

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