Just one thing,” she says, raising her head and looking me straight in the eye. “I want you to remember me. If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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-Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami
(A shame, really, that I’ve only read one Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart. First book I ever bought with my own money, from my very first pay check back when I began working in March 2006)