Kanae Minato

Lots of people fritter away their lives complaining that they were never able to find their true calling. But the truth is that most of us probably don’t even have one. So what’s wrong, then, with deciding on the thing that’s right in front of you and doing it wholeheartedly?

If the place in which you find yourself is too painful, I say you should be free to seek another, less painful place of refuge.

It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.

That night, Naoki killed his mother.

“No,” he said. “You’re wrong.” A smile spread over his face. “She opened her eyes while I was standing there holding her. And then I dropped her in and let her drown.”

Extraordinary people have the right to violate conventional morals in order to bring something new into the world

Extraordinary people have the right to violate conventional morals in order to bring something new into the world

But every time she hit me, I could feel a void opening wider and wider inside.

there was actually something unusually pleasant about being stupid. I had even begun to think that I could be happy being nothing more than a member of this family of dummies.

But perhaps, just perhaps, if I did something horrible, my mother might come running to be with me again.