"Tell me how could you say such a thing,"

(Stolen Words V3)
she said, staring at the ground beneath her feet. "You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back.


I'd go to pieces, and the pieces

would

be


blown
away.

Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?"

I said nothing.


...


"I want you always to remember me, will you remember that I existed,
and that I stood next to you here like this?"


"Always," I said. "I'll always remember."


- Norwegian Wood
  Haruki Murakami