My eyes are burning from reading this... Oh, Ryo... I can't even imagine how horrible it would be to have a childhood like that, I really just don't think that I can really understand the depth, the breadth, the weight of Ryo's feelings. This chapter just tore my heart in two.
it seemed that he would be able to touch the sky if only he reached out…in those moments, Ryo remembered the happiness. I love this line so much because it really just epitomizes childhood for me. I don't know anyone who didn't love the swings when they were kids, and I was the one who was always on the swings the longest. I love how you make it possible to relate to Ryo, regardless of his dark past, through little things like this, like the feeling of freedom on the swings or the love of a guitar at fourteen.
It was simply that there were some things so obscured by emotion that they couldn't be formed with words. This line (well, this whole section) got to me unlike any other. I swear, Ryo's father makes me so angry, so outraged because I know that people like that actually exist. =[ But this line especially really resonates, I thought.
he felt an odd familiarity, a sort of knowingness sneaking up on him as though he'd known this guy intimately in some previous life. I thought the depth of Ryo's longing for companionship, for another person who cares really shows through here. Maybe it's because in my Psych class we just talked about how daughters of abusive fathers often end up pregnant really young or just sleep around a lot because they long for 'touch' from somebody else, but I really saw that coming through from Ryo in this whole scene. And I found this line interesting especially because of what Ryo says to Koyama about fate in one of the previous chapters. I like how Ryo is still hoping, searching for that human comfort that he lacked in his childhood.
I fell for you like a child. And, oh, if this line doesn't sum it up better than anything else possibly could, then I don't know what would. Seriously wonderful. :D
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Date: 2009-01-27 06:49 am (UTC)it seemed that he would be able to touch the sky if only he reached out…in those moments, Ryo remembered the happiness.
I love this line so much because it really just epitomizes childhood for me. I don't know anyone who didn't love the swings when they were kids, and I was the one who was always on the swings the longest. I love how you make it possible to relate to Ryo, regardless of his dark past, through little things like this, like the feeling of freedom on the swings or the love of a guitar at fourteen.
It was simply that there were some things so obscured by emotion that they couldn't be formed with words.
This line (well, this whole section) got to me unlike any other. I swear, Ryo's father makes me so angry, so outraged because I know that people like that actually exist. =[ But this line especially really resonates, I thought.
he felt an odd familiarity, a sort of knowingness sneaking up on him as though he'd known this guy intimately in some previous life.
I thought the depth of Ryo's longing for companionship, for another person who cares really shows through here. Maybe it's because in my Psych class we just talked about how daughters of abusive fathers often end up pregnant really young or just sleep around a lot because they long for 'touch' from somebody else, but I really saw that coming through from Ryo in this whole scene. And I found this line interesting especially because of what Ryo says to Koyama about fate in one of the previous chapters. I like how Ryo is still hoping, searching for that human comfort that he lacked in his childhood.
I fell for you like a child.
And, oh, if this line doesn't sum it up better than anything else possibly could, then I don't know what would. Seriously wonderful. :D