The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
— Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933)
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
― Marcel Proust
The scars that are left in a person’s soul after surviving a war, the ways a society tries to console and redeem itself, how the historical truth gets twisted, suited and tailored to different people’s needs: these are topics that Sora no Woto, beyond its flaws, managed to sing about elegantly. The sound of the sky carried and awakened memories…
Animediet was kind enough to host me once more. Check the rest of my post there.
