The Phone Booth At The Edge Of The World Quotes
"If the world were to fall now, she told herself, she would fall with it, but if there was even the slightest chance of it staying upright, she would use every last ounce of energy she had to make that happen."
"Fragility does not reside in things so much as in flesh. An object can be repaired or replaced, but the body cannot."
"Every week had been a struggle; every month simply hours stacked up in the attic, for a future that might never arrive."
"As children we see happiness in things. A toy train sticking out of a basket or the plastic film around a slice of cake. As adults it gets more complicated."
"Happiness is success, work, a man or a woman. All vague, laborious things."
"Happiness taught us something different about happiness, that all you needed to do was reach out your hand in the right direction and it was there to be taken."
"Strong winds were common in that area, especially in the summer. They tore up the landscape, overturned roofs, and scattered tiles across the earth like seeds."
"Every so often he would stop and solemnly study the view through the frame, then appear to write something down with his free hand."
"The strongest kind of love is the kind that is taken for granted."
"For the first time since the day of the tsunami, she allowed herself to question the steadfastness she had imposed upon herself, her decision to cut the world in two, into the world of the living and the world of the dead."
"Perhaps it doesn’t do any harm, to continue talking to those who are no longer with us."
"The meetings were starting to feel less like two strangers gathering at one point in the world to travel to another, and more like a return. Him returning to her. Her returning to him."
"Well, why would you have seen it? It was a disgraceful spectacle; just imagining it would make you sick, let alone watching it from start to finish."
"The boys were floppy as rags," the man said. "Fish were nibbling at them. There was even a crab in Kengō’s hair."
"The fact that all three of them died, though at different times, convinced us that however we’d behaved, it would’ve ended up like this. That sometimes, to cross over to the other side, you just have to be unlucky."
"I felt ashamed to tell the truth for a while. People come here to Bell Gardia crying for people who have died despite themselves, people who did everything they could to avoid dangerous situations. But that’s how chance works, and life is a game of chance."
"We’re still parents, even when our children are no longer here."
"How many things a hug can fix, Yui wondered. It can even realign your bones."
"Love is like therapy, it only works when you believe in it."
"And if you don’t do something, the marks will remain."
"Knowing how to love life is a necessity, Takeshi, and she needs to learn to trust people. Not to hate them. There’s no way out of hate."
"She could forgive herself only by recalling the difficulties of her own childhood."
"On second thought, it was a miracle that her son had got a degree (in medicine!), and that was something she told herself every time she worried she had thrown her life away: my son, the doctor! A son who saves people’s lives!"
"That’s where Akiko’s beauty came from: she knew how to let go."
"If we are destined to lose certain things, wouldn’t it be better to do without them from the start?"
"The journey? Well, the journey was very, very long, but they saw the most wonderful views."
"The thing that had been astonishing though, was the reaction of everybody else, including Hana. A silence had trickled over the carriage like honey, and everybody held their breath."
"Actually, she thought all children—without exception—were miracle workers."
"When nobody is there to see the miracle, the miracle happens."
"Distance makes us love better and with greater respect."
"Affection has nothing to do with how beautiful or tidy we are."
"Love has nothing to do with beauty or talent, believe me."
"Even the most enormous things can be cut up into tiny parts."
"It's not fair. This place is sacred." No one could possibly want to hurt it."
"Word spread that the woman who went to save the Wind Phone was instead saved by it."
"The area remained without water and electricity long into the evening."
"The phone booth had been wrenched from its foundations and fallen over, but that wasn’t what had hit Yui."
"Just one more lash of wind and the phone booth would have hit her, or the bench might have tipped over and crushed her head."
"He was also worried about Bell Gardia and had waited for the typhoon’s most destructive phase to pass."
"The boy was shocked when he saw the garden. Not only by the chaos of the detritus, but because the whole thing—all the features that made up the geography of Bell Gardia and the Wind Phone—looked as though it had been caught at the center of a spider’s web, wrapped in silken thread to keep it intact, immobilized at the point of capture."
"She would often nibble on chocolate and always wore red."
"Have you ever met anyone who’s really, completely happy anyway? I don’t think I have."
"The wind was God’s breath, he thought, as he placed the steaming plate down in front of him."
"Everything always came back; it just needed to be called by the right name."