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"Wind/Pinball" Quotes
"Wind/Pinball" is a pair of interconnected novellas that explore themes of nostalgia, alienation, and the search for meaning through the lives of two aimless young men in 1970s Japan.
fiction | Published in 2015
Quotes
The world is an inherently unfair place.
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
There are things that can be done and things that cannot be done.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
We passed through life with hardly a ripple, leaving no sign to mark our passage.
I often think that I am not cut out to be a human being.
The wind answers only to itself.
My heart is like a stone, heavy and unmoving.
Dreams are the kind of thing you can—if you want—just turn into memories.
Sometimes I feel as if I’m living at the bottom of a deep well.