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My story will be over soon. But it's not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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Sugi: But why... Why didn't Satoru tell us he was sick? Yoshimine: I kind of understand why. He wanted to say farewell with everybody still smiling.

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I can't say I'm much interested in the ceremonies humans like to conduct. I was in the hospital to see him off. But he's still here, in my heart, so I don't need a ceremony to remember him.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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The weather was dodgy for a few days, but on the day of the funeral the sun shone. It was as though Satoru was welcoming his guests.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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Instead of sobbing like that, it would be better to keep a smile on your face till the end. And then I'm sure you'll be happier.

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Satoru: I never, ever thought they weren't my real parents. That's how much they treated me like their own child. Though my birth parents didn't want me, another man and woman loved me that much - I mean, you don't find such incredible love very often.

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Learning to have some insight into other people's sensitivities was, she concluded, more difficult than mastering the law.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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When an animal's life is over, it rests where it falls, and it often seems to me that humans are such worriers, to think of preparing a place for people to sleep when they are dead. If you have to consider what's going to happen after you die, life becomes doubly troublesome.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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Countryside snow that piles up to the eaves, versus city snow that melts away in a few days. It made me wonder, honestly, how they could both go by the same name.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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Dogs the world over just aren't very level-headed about things. Their master says jump and they ask, 'How high?'

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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A cat could never see all the sights the world has to offer in one lifetime. There's just so much out there. Satoru? Since we had embarked on our journey, I'd seen the town where you spent your childhood. And a farming village. And the sea. I wondered what new scenes we would see together before this journey was over.

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There's a proverb that says a child is the glue that keeps a husband and wife together. A child who was never any trouble might keep things peaceful from day to day, but when push came to shove, that child would finally come unstuck.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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Daigo never gives us any trouble, and that makes things so much easier. If I had been a bad kid who did give them a hard time, then what would have happened?

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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If you don't mourn a dead cat properly, you'll never get over it. Even if you feel able to mourn the death of a cat you've heard nothing about for years, it's a little late to feel truly sad about it, isn't it?

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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If things aren't good, I have no problem saying so. Because cats are creatures that can say no.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

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Some people really shouldn't become parents. There's no absolute guarantee when it comes to the love between a parent and their child.

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Distant relatives you hardly ever see are, to a child, like total strangers. Friends are much closer. Why don't adults understand that?

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