Terminal Boredom: Stories
Izumi Suzuki
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Men are an offshoot of humanity as well, but they’re a deviant strain. They’re freaks.”
“There was no way anyone could live in a world like this with a fully functioning mind. You only found yourself feeling angry from morning until night. If she ended up joining some kind of political movement as a result, her mother and father would be upset. Using drugs, she told herself, was her way of being a good daughter.”
“Like most people these days, I don’t overthink things. I’ll go along with whatever. No firm beliefs, no hang-ups. Just a lack of self-confidence tangled up in fatalistic resignation. Whatever the situation, nothing ever reaches me on an emotional level. Nothing’s important. Because I won’t let it be. I operate on mood alone. No regrets, no looking back. Before me, the world stretches out flat, smooth and featureless. Gentle and inconstant.”
“Life might merely be a momentary bolt of lightning in the dark, after which the self melts into the infinite darkness.”
“I’m an introvert and introverts need companions.”
“Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.”
“I had always assumed HE was doing an impression of a moron, but sometimes I wonder if HE isn’t simply stupid.”
“I alone (well, probably not) know the great secret of this existence, and I’ll have to live out the rest of my life keeping it at all costs. Right now, I have no intention of sacrificing my life for some underground resistance movement. But who knows, it might come to that someday. Shuddering, I turned back to my diary. Someday, surely someday … something will happen. Still shuddering, I finished the entry.”
“While I fielded her questions, I had to ask myself: What was it about her that was turning me into a man? Got to be all that femininity. She’s acting like such a woman (as society defines the role, anyway) that I have to play the man just to keep the balance. What if I ran into a boy? Could I even play the part of a woman?”
“When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained.”
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