“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”
“Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.”
“Some people collect stamps, while I collect letters. My favorite ones are the rare ones, like Q and X.”
“I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”
“Often, when I pray, I wonder if I'm not posting letters to a non-existent address.”
“When there was no one left, it became nowhere. There were no more letters after the w.”