地震後

1.
"Hmm. Now I feel as if I've come a very long way," Komura answered honestly.
"But really," she said, "you're just at the beginning."


2.
"The iron is not an iron?"
"That's right."
"Meaning it stands for something else?"
"Probably."
"Meaning you can paint it only if you use something else to stand for it?"
Miyake nodded in silence.


3.
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another. All God's children can dance.


4.
Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.


5.
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.


6.
Eyes fixed on the hands of the wall clock, Junpei thought about the rest of the story for Sala - the tale of Masakichi and Tonkichi. He had to find a way out. He couldn't just leave Tonkichi stranded in the zoo. He had to save him.


讀短篇時常是跳著讀，讀地震後是順著讀，剛好順著讀才讀出微妙的安排。