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“Even if something dramatic or terrible in your life doesn't happen, just the act of growing older is like a massive trauma anyway.”

Growing Up Life And Living Trauma

Book:El gato y la ciudad

Source: El gato y la ciudad

“Seeing her books reassured her, made her feel calm. She'd read most of them, but there were a many waiting to be read, which gave her a sense of excitement, and conjured up one of her favourite Japanese words - tsundoku - a word that required a sentence in English: buying books and piling them up on a shelf without reading them.”

Reading Japanese Buying Books

Book:El gato y la ciudad

Source: El gato y la ciudad

“I can't stand that shit - people talking about things they think they should talk about, so as not to be socially awkward.”

Society Communication Skills Awkwardness Conversations

Book:El gato y la ciudad

Source: El gato y la ciudad

“Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind.”

Japanese Literature

Book:Four Seasons in Japan

Source: Four Seasons in Japan

“Flo n'avait pas l'air conditionné, c'était trop cher, en revanche elle avait beaucoup de livres. Ses étagères en étaient remplies, il n'y restait plus un centimètre libre. Les voir la rassurait et la calmait. Elle en avait lu une majorité, mais il y en avait encore beaucoup à lire, ce qui suscitait chez elle une certaine excitation et lui évoquait un de ses mots préférés en japonais, tsundoku – un terme sans équivalent dans d'autres langues : acheter des livres et les entasser sur une étagère sans les lire.”

Language Book Lovers Japanese Quote In French Tsundoku

Book:The Cat and The City

Source: The Cat and The City

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