“It feels like going home, same as always, and opening the door to find all these people there: someone who feels like an old friend even though we’ve never met, someone who means the world to me but I can never see again, somebody crying, somebody laughing, people from far away—and I’m there, too. We don’t talk about anything special, but we’re all there, just sharing time.” LoveHomeCommunityInternationalTranslations Author:Mieko Kawakami
“Now that the light was gone, I closed my eyes softly, knowing it would only be a short time until the light came back in the morning.” LoveSolitudeAlltheloversinthenight Book:All the Lovers in the Night Source: All the Lovers in the Night