"Thousand Cranes" Quotes
A young man becomes entangled in a complex web of love and loss after the death of his father's mistress in post-war Japan.
japan | 160 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
The inevitable can never be avoided.
inevitability
A man's life is short. A woman's life is long.
lifegender
No one can ever make me do anything I don't want to.
independence
But love is a sickness that can be cured only by marriage.
lovemarriage
The heart of a man who takes a woman for granted is like a stone.
appreciation
You can't make a person love you, no matter how much you love them.
unrequited love
The dead are more to be envied than the living.
death
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
sufferingwriting
Without love, the world is not real.
lovereality
I am not interested in the future, but in the perfection of the present.
presentpriorities
