Laura Imai Messina Biography & Quotes

“Grief, Yui had once told him, is something you ingest every day, like a sandwich cut into small pieces, gently chewed and then calmly swallowed. Digestion was slow. And so, Takeshi thought, joy must work the same way.”

Joy Grief

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Source: The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“We need to possess joy in abundance before we can bestow it on somebody else.”

Joy

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“La solitudine affamava, stancava come il digiuno.”

Inspirational Loneliness Selfconsciousness

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“Yui and Takeshi gradually realised that the Wind Phone was like a verb that conjugated differently for each person: everybody's grief looked the same at first but was, ultimately, unique.”

Grief

Book:The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

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“If we are destined to lost certain things, wouldn't it be better to do without them from the start? [Takeshi's mother]”

Loss

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“She [Yui] was convinced that nostalgia had nothing to do with memory, that we actually feel it most strongly for things we have never experienced.”

Nostalgia

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“If Yui had to describe this feeling, this pain, she would say it was like the stabbing contractions that preceded childbirth, the wonder of the process she had experienced when her daughter was born: closing to open again, contracting to then dilate, clamp and hold, then spread your legs wide and push. A total paradox, essentially, like one of those things you only find when you've stopped looking for it. Like love, true love, or children that won't come.”

Emotions Paradox

Book:The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

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“It was the right moment. It always is when something beautiful happens.”

Right Moment

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“Quella sera Yui rientrò nel silenzio condensato della sua casa pensando che i ricordi erano come le cose, come quel pallone da calcio che dopo un anno dallo tsunami era giunto sulle coste dell'Alaska, a 3000 miglia dall'altro lato dell'Oceano Pacifico. Prima o poi, tornano a galla.”

Ricordi

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“Di chi non si sa nulla, non c'è niente da dire. Di chi non si sa nulla, nulla più importa. In quel luogo di confino Yui scoprì d'aver imparato un'altra cosa importante, ovvero che un uomo bastava tacerlo per eliminarlo per sempre. Per questo serviva ricordare le storie, parlare con le persone, parlare delle persone. Ascoltare le persone parlare di altre persone. Anche dialogare con i morti, se fosse servito.”

Ricordare

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“Se il mondo cadeva, si disse, lei sarebbe caduta con lui; ma se vi era anche una sola possibilità di tenerlo in piedi, magari pure in un goffo equilibrio, avrebbe speso ogni granello residuo di energia per aiutarlo.”

Mondo

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“Precisissima nel rigovernare la casa, non dimenticava una celebrazione o una bolletta. E tuttavia anche distratta, di quella leggerezza innata di chi non si impunta su ogni cosa sbagliata. Ecco, stava lì soprattutto il bello di Akiko: sapeva lasciar correre il mondo. A differenza di lei, non se ne faceva una malattia se le cose non andavano come voleva.”

Leggerezza

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Laura Imai Messina Biography

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