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on the pair: Here we were, two ridiculously fragile people, sliding along on a very thin layer of ice all the time, each of us ready to slip and take the other down at any moment, the most unsteady of couples—and yet I believed what I had said. It would be all right. === There are other interesting quotes at goodreads - the translation, easy read for ESL Japanese youth readers - may not do justice to the author's original spirit: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13216114-mizuumi?page=1