Looking back on it now, I'd say one's thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the sea of hardship, and even death - Takashi Hiraide
he imagined fate as a goddess, capricious and fickle, or as a river, which could flood at any moment - Takashi Hiraide