“Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.”

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

“I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness.”

“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”

“No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.”

“Learning another language is like becoming another person.”

“You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?""It's a distance that can't be measured.""Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.”