Só é possível confiar em alguém quando se acredita no diálogo com essa pessoa.
(Miso soup, trad. Jefferson José Teixeira, ed. Cia. das Letras, 2005, p. 153)

Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.

Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ...

Ona vrsta usamljenosti u kojoj moraš da se boriš kako bi prihvatio situacju iz korena je drugačija od one vrste u kojoj znaš da ćeš isplivati samo ako izdržiš.

Sinteen-years -old girls are probably the most sensitive and perceptive group of people in this entire country.

American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese.