[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

“There was something strange about her eyes. They were mysteriously lacking in d…”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them …”

“He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she coul…”

“I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm s…”