There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I must do, not knowing my own mind, and I am led astray.

“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I cou…”

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

“Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the darkbot…”