Veronica Yabloko

“The way you write ronin is 浪人 with the character for wave and the character for person, which is pretty much how I feel, like a little wave person, floating around on the stormy sea of life.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake