The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

People don’t drift apart for one specific reason. Well, you might be able to find a reason, but you could come up with one only after you made up your mind, a tired excuse tacked on after the fact. If their hearts were still in it and their bond was threatening to sever, you’d think one of them would step in and try to fix things. When no one does, you know the bond has already been broken

sitting beside someone’s sickbed isn’t the only way to care for them.

His last words: “Thank you for letting me dream.”

if you don’t understand something, don’t assume people owe you an explanation—try to figure it out yourself.

“It’s a pun,” he said. “Namiya and nayami, the Japanese word for problems, woes, whatever.”

The General Store That Answers Your Woes.

me, dying is less painful than the idea of making the woman I love give up on her dreams.

The ultimate waste is worrying about what to do

don’t want to give up on my dreams. This is what made me who I am, and this is who you fell in love with

If you love him, stay beside him to the end