

“I wondered if there were planets where it's okay to murder people. I decided there must be, reminding myself that in war, after all, killers are heroes.”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup

“With a heart unaccustomed to doubting, he never wondered for an instant whether the girl would brave such a storm to keep their rendezvous. He knew nothing of that melancholy and all-too-effective way of passing time by magnifying and complicating his feelings, whether of happiness or uneasiness, through the exercise of imagination.”
― The Sound of Waves
― The Sound of Waves

“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup

“Secrets lie through omission just like shame lies through secrecy.”
― There There
― There There

“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.”
― There There
― There There
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