"Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
"I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all."
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Source: Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.124, Grove Press
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