Important Characters: Uncle Satoru, Tomo, Takako, Takano, Sabu, Tomo, Hideaki, Murano
Quotable Quotes
It’s important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbour. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you’re well rested, you can set sail again.
Human beings are full of contradictions.
No matter where you go, or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven’t seen anything. And that’s life. We live our lives trying to find our way. Its like that Santoka Taneda poem the one that goes, “On and on, in and in, and still the blue green mountains
She and I have the same way of looking at things. It’s what brought us together, and I think it’s also the reason we split up. We met in the middle of the journey and we fell in love. But that doesn’t mean that we’ll be always traveling together. At some point, everyone has to find their safe harbour.
The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it’s your whole soul - Motojiro Kajii’s Landscapes of the Heart.
Quote from the book, “Confessions of a husband”: My boat travels lightly, drifting aimlessly at the mercy of the current.
The idea of this child growing uo, experiencing so many things for the first time, absorbing so much- all of it brought me as much joy as if it were happening to me. It was time to stop shutting myself up in a cage. IT was time to get moving, to look around and learn what I could from it all. Time to go in search of a place where I belonged, a place where I could say with confidence that I felt right. All the trips I went on, all the books I read, were the consequences of that decisions. In other words, Takako, meeting you led me to that epiphany.
After all that time, I came back here. That’s when I finally realised it wasn’t just a question of where I was. It was about something inside me. No matter where I went, no matter who I was with, if I could be honest with myself, then there is where I belonged. By the time I realised that, half my life was over. So I went back to my favourite harbor and I decided to drop anchor.
It made me realise once again that none of those things had ever been resolved. I had just tossed it all aside, waiting for my memories to fade away over time. But even though six months had gone by, just hearing his voice for a moment had left me all churned up inside. I understood at last that none of my problems had been solved. The trouble was still there
You need to get this off your chest. If not, the ghost of this thing will haunt you forever.
There’s one thing I want you to promise me. Don’t be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in hearache, please don’t live a lonely life without love. I’ve been so worried that because of what happened you’ll give up on falling in love. Love is wonderful. I don’t want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They of on warming your heart as long as you love. When you get old like me, you’ll understand.
You just fit in so well in the store that I wanted to let you be. It was almost like that moment when you’re watching a butterfly coming out of it chrysalis, and you’re holding your breath, and you want to keep on watching…
If I had never gone to the shop, I’d still be living my life in a daze. I met so many people there, and I learned so many things, and of course, there were all of the books I discovered. I feel like I finally learned to see something a tiny bit valuable within myself. That’s why I know that I’ll never forget the days I spent at the bookshop.
I guess that’s just what it’s like being young. You’re always carrying around a lot of luggage.
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