Quotes from Y?ko Ogawa

If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

In general," he continued, "most things you worry about end up being no more than that—just worries.

Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.

His soul is too dense. If he comes out, he'll dissolve into pieces, like a deep-sea fish pulled to the surface too quickly. I suppose my job is to go on holding him here at the bottom of the sea.

Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it

I was always watching you." This could have been a breathless declaration of love or a final farewell.

When you lost your voice, you lost the ability to make sense of yourself.

People—and I'm no exception—seem capable of forgetting almost anything, much as if our island were unable to float in anything but an expanse of totally empty sea.