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“I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I choose nothing. I did nothing.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful? As I walk through the night, I remember what Mitsutsuka said to me. 鈥淏ecause at night, only half the world remains.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“When I start to feel emotional about something, I can't tell if I'm actually feeling that way. What if it's just something somebody wrote in a book? Or maybe a line or a performance from some movie... Either way, I get this feeling like I'm quoting somebody else's work.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Memory's funny, isn't it? We remember some things out of nowhere, but so much of what happens, we never think about again.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“I鈥檇 been on my own for ages, and I was convinced that there was no way I could be any more alone, but now I鈥檇 finally realized how alone I truly was. Despite the crowds of people, and all the different places, and a limitless supply of sounds and colors packed together, there was nothing here that I could reach out and touch.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“As I passed below the haloes of the green and red traffic signals, I was taken by this strange view of the evening, the city streets full of people鈥� people waiting, the people they were waiting for, people out to eat together, people going somewhere together, people heading home together. I allowed my thoughts to settle on the brightness filling their hearts and lungs, squinting as I walked along and counted all the players of this game I would never play.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“I thought about the books that I had looked through in the bookstore. It occurred to me that they were full of things that people wanted to say to other people, or things people wanted somebody to say to them.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Had I ever chosen anything? Had I made some kind of choice that led me here? Thinking it over, I stared at the cell phone in my hands. The job that I was doing, the place where I was living, the fact that I was all alone and had no one to talk to. Could these have been the result of some decision that I'd made?
I heard a crow crying somewhere in the distance and turned to the window. It occurred to me that maybe I was where I was today because I hadn't chosen anything.
I applied to whatever colleges my teacher suggested and fell into a job after graduation, which I'd left only because I had to escape. I was only able to go freelance because of all the leg-work that Hijiri did for me. Had I ever chosen anything on my own, made something happen? Not once. And that's why I was here now, all alone.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“If you make plenty of money but don't have any kids, you might get called successful. But unless you have kids, no one will ever call you a great woman.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“I became unsure of how to leave the mirror, how to leave the me in the mirror behind.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“there are way too many things you'll never remember. Sometimes a memory jumps out at you, even though almost everything is lost forever. But what if all the things that we can't remember are actually the most important ones?”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“You can make people believe whatever you want. You can fool them like it鈥檚 nothing. But you can鈥檛 fool yourself, not really. That鈥檚 why what matters is how you think about your work in your own lifetime, how much you respect it, how hard you鈥檙e trying. Or tried.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“Night ended, morning came, and as I looked out on the blueness spreading into the corners of the sky, I thought about what he had told me, about all the light that was there and yet impossible to see.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“As long as you're living on this planet, you have to be serious about something, but it's better to be serious about a limited number of things.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“My life is nowhere but here, and I am nowhere else.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“It鈥檚 not like I want people to hate me. I鈥檓 just not about to go out of my way to make them like me, either. Being liked is wonderful and all, but that鈥檚 not what life is about, you know?”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful?”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“to me that maybe I was where I was today because I hadn鈥檛 chosen anything.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“Sadness and happiness are all experienced by someone else before us; we鈥檙e simply following their lead.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“Because at night, only half the world remains.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“what matters is how you think about your work in your own lifetime, how much you respect it, how hard you're trying.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Their so-called spirituality is completely self-serving, designed to make them happy, or make the people around them think they鈥檝e found some kind of happiness. It鈥檚 this shallow belief in immediate profit. They go around talking about seeing something big. As if everything they feel, everything they鈥檙e thinking, is so big, bigger than all of us. That鈥檚 what they do. They act like they鈥檙e all big, ready to share their happiness with everyone, when the only happiness they care about is their own. Like, why can鈥檛 they just keep all that stuff to themselves and leave the rest of us alone?”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“I don鈥檛 know, I guess sometimes I feel happy or sad or worried鈥r maybe I get really into something on TV, or really like the flavor of some giant shrimp, whatever. But sometimes I have to wonder if those thoughts or feelings might be coming from the things I read for work. When I start to feel emotional about something, I can鈥檛 tell if I鈥檓 actually feeling that way. What if it鈥檚 just something somebody else wrote in a book? Or maybe a line or a performance from some movie鈥ither way, I get this feeling like I鈥檓 quoting somebody else鈥檚 work [鈥 like the feelings aren鈥檛 mine.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“I happened to catch a glimpse of my reflection in the window glass.
The image of myself that floated to the surface, tinged with blue against a backdrop of the signs, walls, and windows of the nearby buildings, looked absolutely miserable. Not sad, or tired, but the dictionary definition of a miserable person. This was the woman that I saw in the glass, while an assortment of other objects drifted in and out of the reflection. The space around my head was wild with baby hair or stray hairs that had come free. My shoulders sagged, and the skin around my eyes was sunken. My arms and legs looked stubby while my neck looked long and skinny. The tendons around my collarbone and throat stuck out, and my skin was anything but supple, as if the flesh had been deflated, leaving bizarre diagonal lines on my cheeks. What I saw in the reflection was myself, in a cardigan and faded jeans, at age thirty-four. Just a miserable woman, who couldn鈥檛 even enjoy herself on a gorgeous day like this, on her own in the city, desperately hugging a bag full to bursting with the kind of things that other people wave off or throw in the trash the first chance they get.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“that. But the more we meet up, the harder it gets. Every time I see him, I dunno . . . it just gets harder. I mean, it鈥檚 good when we鈥檙e together. But after . . . I don鈥檛 know how to explain it. 鈥楧ead inside鈥� is a little too dramatic. I just feel hard and numb, like some part of me is losing all feeling. I can鈥檛 stand being alone. I know this is my own doing, but it makes me really sad. It鈥檚 hard to put my finger on it, but I know it wasn鈥檛 supposed to be like this.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ran out, I started stepping out to the convenience store to grab some snacks, the sort of junk food where it didn't matter if you ate it or not. Even so, I continued to put this food that didn't matter into my body that didn't matter, which made everything seem to matter even less. Every meal, if you could call it a meal, was like another dent in my existence. I couldn't summon the energy to prepare the easiest of foods, exhausted by even the simple act of boiling water.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Just think about how advice usually works. People ask for advice all the time, right? But they鈥檙e not actually asking for somebody鈥檚 opinion, or what that person would do in a similar situation. Far from it. What they鈥檙e really doing is putting their thoughts or their own experiences into words. That鈥檚 why advice never solves anything. Have you ever heard about advice leading to a resolution? Putting things into words like that only adds to the list of problems. It just makes things more complicated.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“That鈥檚 right. As long as you鈥檙e living on this planet, you have to be serious about something, but it鈥檚 better to be serious about a limited number of things.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night