Jepa

“I must not become so absorbed in my scientific work that I forget to fish and end up with nothing to eat.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“I went outside. The rain had stopped.
The air, washed by the rain, was serene, and the waves sounded closer than usual.
The full moon shone like a pearl in the night sky.
The moonlight made it look as if all the houses had sunk to the bottom of a lake.
The road stretched ahead, white.
It was the road that led to Migitahama.
A gust of wind and the petals from a wild cherry tree went dancing, white against the darkness, and I remembered then that the cherry trees here blossomed two or three weeks later than in Tokyo.
The waves roared.
I stood alone in the darkness.
Light does not illuminate.
It only looks for things to illuminate.
And I had never been found by the light.
I would always be in darkness—”
― Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

“All dogs have the ability to bite,” she said over her shoulder. “Just as all humans have the ability to cause harm. The trick is to act in a reasonable way so that harm becomes unnecessary.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Time had slowed to a sluggish crawl. I walked faster, but each step plunged me deeper into the depths of stillness. If time could pass so slowly that its passage was imperceptible, then is death where time stops and the self is left all alone in space? Is death where space and the self are erased and only time continues? Where had Koichi gone to? Had he really disappeared completely?”
― Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station