
The speed at which the sakura blossom petals fall… Five centimeters per second.” – Akari Shinohara “Hey… They say it’s five centimeters per second. “Clouds are a bunch of tiny droplets that get bigger bit by bit as they slowly descend, before turning into rain or snow and falling to Earth.” – Akari Shinohara That became my compass in life.” – Takaki Toono “To hold on to that feeling even if we’d be far apart. I want to promise you that.” – Takaki Toono But what I want is to be a person who won’t disappoint you if we happen to meet somewhere, someday a long time from now. “I don’t quite understand yet what it really means to grow up.


That sense of fulfillment, of being move when I look at something beautiful, my enthusiasm - was being whittled away.” – Takaki Toono “My heart has been…how do I put this…it’s like I’ve lost my resilience. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.” – Takaki Toono Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. “It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. “The things I had to tell her…The things I hoped she would listen to…There were so many of them.” – Takaki Toono They had become nothing more than insipid rows of empty words.” – Takaki Toono Unable to grasp each other’s present, shying away from the truth that threatened our bond, from our utter estrangement.

“Because the letters had already lost their meaning. How many of them have I been missing?” – Takaki Toono “Reality is brimming over with beautiful things, scintillating feelings. “And bit by bit, you’ll keep changing.” – Takaki Toono “At what speed must I live…to be able to see you again?” – Takaki Toono
