Quotes from book

Sputnik Sweetheart

“In the world we live in, what weand what weare like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

“I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky”

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”

“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”

“Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.”

“Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.”

“What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have”

“Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.”

“An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind….. Something incredibly important -.. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence”

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

“Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.”

“That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.”

“Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.”

“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”

“Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?”

“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.”