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Fuyumi Ono Biography

Fuyumi Ono (小野不由美, Ono Fuyumi, born December 24, 1960 in Nakatsu, Ōita, Japan) is a Japanese novelist best known for writing The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, Jūni Kokuki) series, which was adapted into a popular anime series. She is married to Yukito Ayatsuji, the author of the horror novel Another.

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Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom - so deep that not even light could touch it. And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling. Like stars.

Black, Colonies, Dark, Incredibly, Ocean, Stars

It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.

Dream, Effort, Going Away, Make, Putting

I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.

Thinking, Different, Wonder, Spend, Born

When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.

Accomplished, Pain, People, Time, Way

And that's when I realized that there's really two ways people cry. You cry when you're sorry for yourself, and then you cry when you are really sad. The tears you cry for yourself? Those are kid tears. You're crying because you want somebody to help you or pick you up. Your mom, your dad, the old lady next door. . . anyone.

Mom, Dad, Sorry, Tears, Realized

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