“Sometimes we hit the wrong notes like clashing echoes. Yet sometimes, just by chance, the notes we played for one another made unexpected music, like this. Her eyes filled with tears. As long as the life you have given me continues, let me stand on the shore of that great abyss and play. Let me pluck my harp, note by note, and speak to the creatures of earth and sky, so that I may hear music as yet unknown.”
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Nahoko Uehashi is a renowned Japanese female fantasy novelist, born on July 15, 1962. Her works, mainly in the fantasy genre, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind' and 'The Night is Short, Walk on Girl'. more
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