Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change and movement.

Facts and the truth are two different things. That

He would be able to hand over to his child a kind of possibility, even if it was nothing more than a possibility. Wouldn’t that alone make his life until now feel meaningful?

“That’s right. Your heart is seeking, and needing, a new direction. Though your mind has yet to fully grasp that. People’s hearts are not that easy to grasp.”

there isn’t just one reality. Reality is something you have to choose by yourself, out of several possible alternatives.

Nowadays, though, anyone can check what day of the week they were born on in less than ten seconds. The boy could come up with the answer in one second. This wasn’t a shootout in a Western, but how much practical difference was there between ten seconds and one? I felt a little sad for the boy. The world was, day by day, becoming a more convenient,

Once you’ve tasted pure, unadulterated love, it’s like a part of your heart’s been irradiated, burned out, in a sense. Particularly when that love, for whatever reason, is suddenly severed. For the person involved, that sort of love is both the supreme happiness and a curse.

I’d forgotten that tears could be this warm. Tears, like blood, were wrung from the same warm body.

Sometimes numbers can be more eloquent than words.