After Dark by Murakami

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To ascertain the truth, we focus more intently on the screen.

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"We met once," he continues. "Your name is . . . Yuri . . . sort of like your sister Eri's except the first syllable."
Keeping a cautious gaze fixed on him, she executes a concise factual correction: "Mari."

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Free of all confusion, Eri now sleeps decorously in her bed.

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At first glance, we can discern no sign of breathing, but staring hard we can make out a slight—a very slight—movement at the base of her throat.

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But her intended scream never emerges.

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It lurks beneath the surface of the water, expunging any sense of its presence.

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"Oh, well," Takahashi says, as if resigning himself to the inevitable.

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...an innate fondness for people.

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Whenever the TV screen flickers, the light striking her profile wavers, and shadows dance like inscrutable signals.

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We sense its intention intuitively.

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We follow the same rules, so to speak, as orthodox time travelers.

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I'm a pacifist, a good-natured guy, I've never laid a hand on anybody since I was a kid.

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Government measures to rectify the drastic rise of the yen.

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She seems to be performing operations in the wrong sequence.

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Even in the profoundest somnolence, people do not tread so deeply into the realm of sleep.

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Try as he might to suppress his own presence, that other thing never emerges.

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She notices that she is in a tranquil mood for the first time in quite a while.