“And each time he finished a sentence, there was a tiny but meaningful lump of silence left behind. This lump floated there, enclosed in the car's restricted space like an imaginary miniature cloud, giving Aomame a strangely unsettled feeling.”

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami - “And each time he finished a sentence...” 1

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