“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.”

—  Yōko Ogawa, book The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Source: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

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