"
"It is precisely because you were transported to 1Q84 that you were able to learn this fact - the fact that your hearts are, in a sense, intertwined."
She said, "We should have had the courage to search for each other long ago, I suppose. Then we could have been united in the original world."
Tears poured from Aomame's eyes. She cried for everything she had lost. She cried for everything she was about to lose. And eventually - how long had she been crying? - she arrived at a point where she could cry no longer. Her tears dried up, as if her emotions had run into an invisible wall.
"All right, then," Aomame said.
Everything ended in silence. The beasts and spirits heaved a deep breath, broke up their encirclement, and returned to the depths of a forest that had lost its heart.
"
1Q84, excerpts 471-473
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