The Lake

If you’re always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them

all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it’s sad, but that’s the truth.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more

You know, Chihiro, darling—all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me. If you’re always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them.”

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it’s sad, but that’s the truth

Everything that tied me to my hometown was a pain. The less of it the better

There’s no need to forgive every mistake, to learn to like the bad things, we tell ourselves, and so we forgive just enough, in an easy sort of way.

She gave it everything she had, squeezing every last drop of strength in her body into following the tiny thread that led her to me.

Not to run away from everything that had happened in a day, but to turn it all into another form of energy, make it part of myself.