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Don't go far away, even for just one day, because Because...a day is long, and I will wait for you.

Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

#honestly not smart enough to understand this book #but it's beautifully written #this line made me cry

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This world throws all kinds of obstacles at us; we are forced to endure so much that is absurd. Our best weapon for fighting all the pain and trouble isn't logic or violence. It's humor.

Sosuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

#sosuke natsukawa #the cat who saved books #translated from japanese #the cutest book

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If I really think about it, the stars did not arrange such a fate. But the stars are broken, and so the definitive proof is gone. This moment is a vertex where time caves in: to the left is the past, to the right-- To the right should have been the future. But the stars are broken. Also, I met Zhang Xiaobo.

Tang Fei, Broken Stars

#broken stars

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Meaning was not reducible to language. But if it couldn't be spoken about, how could it exist?

Xia Jia, Goodnight, Melancholy, in Broken Stars

#thinking about rf kuang's babel and the spaces between words and thought and meaning #language is how we prove our existence to each other #but it is not all we are #something something