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"We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her."
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"God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge."

"Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection."

"You and IThe starry sky Dancing in the night Talking all things life."

"The God that is nearest to you in the people around you is the real one you need."

"You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life."

"Distance is an outer phenomenon. In the inner world, everything is connected with love."

"When he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."

"You can only see God when you notice people."

"Everything becomes yours when you touch it with your love. You are connected to everything with your feelings."

"I've never really had a party before. "Why did you have one now? I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come."
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"Okay, let's put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it's alright if I don't sleep with you. What I'm saying is I'd like to be as fair as possible. I don't want to force anything on anybody, any more than I'd want anything forced on me. It's enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me."

"We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish."

"In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality."

"The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell."

"Haida stopped and glanced at the clock on the wall. Then he looked at Tsukuru. He was, of course, Haida the son, but Haida the father has been the same age in his story, and so the two of them began to overlap in Tsukuru's mind. It was an odd sensation, as if the two distinct temporalities had blended into one. Maybe it wasn't the father who had experienced this, but the son. Maybe Haida was just relating it as if his father had experienced it, when in reality he was the one who had. Tsukuru couldn't shake this illusion."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me."

"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."

"Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry-at someone else or at herself-which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears."
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