Quotes About Reiko

#1. Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so.
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

Yukio Mishima

#2. Reiko moved on to the Beatles, playing "Norwegian Wood," "Yesterday," "Michelle," and "Something." She sang and played "Here Comes the Sun," then played "The Fool on the Hill." I laid seven matches in a row.

Haruki Murakami

#3. What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

Haruki Murakami

#4. They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In

S.M. Stirling

#5. After a short breather, Reiko crushed her cigarette out and picked her guitar up again. She played "Penny Lane," "Blackbird," "Julia," "When I'm 64," "Nowhere Man," "And I Love Her," and "Hey Jude.

Haruki Murakami

#6. How come you always like people like that -people like us, I mean? We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning -me and Kizuki and Reiko. Why can't you like more normal people?

Haruki Murakami

#7. Toru: What happens when people open their hearts?
Reiko: They get better.

Haruki Murakami

#8. I cry when I'm lonely. Reiko says it's good I can cry. But feeling lonely really hurts.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.

Reiko Saibara

#10. An Elegy
A thousand times must we deplore
The lost will never come to life again;
Even as flowing water runs away,
Returning nevermore.
Lady Kanin

Reiko Chiba

#11. Winter and Summer
While it's summer people say
Winter is the better season.
Such is human reason.
Kamijima Onitsura

Reiko Chiba

#12. You have to trust your body to take care of you.

A. J. Langer

#13. Might not be able to tell them I loved them, but I could do my best to show them, and maybe, just maybe, they'd notice. Maybe they'd even love me back, after a fashion.

Josephine Myles

#14. Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do want to try my best though. I have to, or else I won't know where to go. Like you said before, Naoko and I have to save each other. It's the only was for us to be saved!

Haruki Murakami

#15. The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Dixie Lee Ray

#16. I began guitar after coming here as there wasn't a piano about. I taught myself, but my fingers just aren't cut out for the guitar, so I can't seem to get very good. Still, I like the innstrument. It's light, simple, straighforward, like a warm little room, nice and cozy.

Haruki Murakami

#17. SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

Reiko Chiba

#18. The authorities aren't always up to the job.

Bill Roorbach

#19. Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.

Reiko Chiba

#20. When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years,

Judy Collins

#21. My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk.

Darynda Jones

#22. I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

Reiko Aylesworth

#23. The Transitoriness of Life
To what may man's life be compared?
To a boat which rowed away,
Far in the sea, and left no track,
In the morning of the day.
Shami Mansai

Reiko Chiba

#24. Invite Tranquility
The sea,
Something to look at
When we are angry.

Reiko Chiba