Dance Dance Dance Quotes
"I wake up, but where? I don't just think this, I actually voice the question to myself: «Where am I?»"
"Not that I particularly recall ever having approved these matters, this condition, this state of affairs in which I feature."
"A feature of the world that is my existence."
"The hotel envelops me. I can feel its pulse, its heat."
"Enough for me to be sure I'm myself and not part of something else."
"A world-class writer who . . . takes big risks."
"All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity."
"The Dolphin Hotel is distorted, much too narrow."
"Just as I know now. Her purpose had been to lead me there."
"The whole place was completely dark. All I could see were the elevator call buttons."
"It's exceedingly difficult to hold your breath and keep smiling."
"The deepest I got involved was with a woman who worked at the phone company."
"I mean, who's going to read about the peaceful life and times of a nobody employed at the Kawasaki Municipal Library?"
"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects."
"You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru."
"Social rehabilitation. I had a sense about which women I ought to sleep with."
"The furniture was faded, the tables wobbled, the locks were useless."
"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."
"The prospect alone depresses. It has been all I could do these four years to rid myself of that chill, dim shadow."
"Yet I'll remember the feel of the dream. So much that I swear I can reach out and touch it."
"A far cry from its name, if not for the sign hung out front, you'd never have known the building was a hotel."
"You'd want to put him in a glass case and cart him to your science class: Homo nihilsuccessus."
"She was seeking me out. Why else would I keep having the same dream, over and over again?"
"And by the time everything was over, I was overwhelmed by a stillness deeper than anything I'd known."
"I simply needed time to get back on my feet."
"I wasn't in a drinking frame of mind. I had no idea what was going on in the world."
"Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it."
"The scent of the wind changed. Even the darkness of night was different."
"You could tell she had to be some piece when she was warm. But seeing her like this, I didn't even twitch."
"Somebody killed this woman. She had the right to live."
"You know you're going to die. You're thinking why do I have to die like this?"
"You want to go on living. But you can feel the oxygen drying up."
"Your head goes foggy. You piss. You lose the feeling in your legs."
"We'd like to catch the son of a bitch who killed this gorgeous young thing."
"Sounds stupid, doesn't it? But I mean it. I'm not sure."
"I just feel as if I might have done it. I can't prove it."
"What's real anyway? From what point is it all phobia? Or acting?"
"Let's say I did kill Kiki—what would be the reason?"
"I wasn't there, but it's like I killed her with my own hands."
"I probably didn't kill anyone. Kiki just vanished somewhere."
"I probably did kill Kiki. I don't think I killed Mei, but, yes, I think I killed Kiki."
"I have this urge to destroy something. Smash it to bits."
"I killed four cats. I used a slingshot and busted the neighbors' window."
"There's no such thing as finishing up in my line of work."
"Let's go to Hawaii. I can think things over later."
"You really think you can forget I killed Kiki?"
"I climbed into bed and shut my eyes, hating everything."
"People came and went, but once gone, they never came back."