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1 " Flo n'avait pas l'air conditionné, c'était trop cher, en revanche elle avait beaucoup de livres. Ses étagères en étaient remplies, il n'y restait plus un centimètre libre. Les voir la rassurait et la calmait. Elle en avait lu une majorité, mais il y en avait encore beaucoup à lire, ce qui suscitait chez elle une certaine excitation et lui évoquait un de ses mots préférés en japonais, tsundoku – un terme sans équivalent dans d'autres langues : acheter des livres et les entasser sur une étagère sans les lire. "
― Nick Bradley , The Cat and The City
2 " – tsundoku – a word that required a sentence in English: buying books and piling them up on a shelf without reading them. "
3 " He used to say you can judge a society by how it treats its cats. "
4 " You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen. Time to press start again; to un-pause this game and let it play out to the end. "
5 " tsundoku – a word that required a sentence in English: buying books and piling them up on a shelf without reading them. "
6 " But she would always tell herself, Who needs friends, when you have books. "
7 " Japanophiles were people who just loved Japan without asking questions. "
8 " Seeing her books reassured her, made her feel calm. "
9 " Who needs friends, when you have books, "
10 " I decided i want to be a manga artist when i grow up. If you want to know why, it's because of you. I know that you hurt a lot inside. An I know that manga makes you happy. If i can make manga, maybe I can help people like you be happy. "
11 " There was something it was searching for - some kind of memory of a previous life - a scent, an image. Was it the purple-headed man, or something else? "
12 " He had an anxious smile on his face.And he was clutching a letter in his hand. "
13 " then the train company will charge the family of the deceased. It’s supposed to stop the jumpers from disrupting the trains - Tokyo doesn’t appreciate being put behind schedule "
14 " I am at war - at war with the ants "
15 " I can hear the pleasant cracking sound of the cubes fracturing, breaking apart like bone "
16 " felt like Japanese had always stifled her true feelings "
17 " the buildings of the city blossoming and withering like flowers from the swamps of Edo "
18 " a person. Just like her. Just like everyone. Lost and alone "
19 " he never felt that way about Japanese - even though he didn’t understand it. The fluid monotonic sound of it alone made it a far more beautiful and spiritual language. English, with its heavy stresses and wobbly intonation, was dirty and repugnant to his ears "
20 " he wanted so much, but asked for nothing. Just pretended he was respectable. Pretended as if he was never gripped by animalistic savagery "
