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“Listen," she said "Life is a story you write yourself.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Had That Same Dream Again

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.”
― Mikko Harvey

“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
― Louis XIV

“Life is like a bento box. [...] I can’t fit in everything I like.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Had That Same Dream Again

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“If you’re a lover of books, you’ll want to enjoy the heart-pounding feeling of searching for them.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Had That Same Dream Again

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

“People shouldn't have everything they want. No one is entitled to their every desire. To live in balance, we must willingly decide not to take all that we can from the world, and from others.”
― F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“It’ll never get easier. If you had a strict rule, maybe, to always show mercy or always punish, you could use it as a shield to protect your spirit. But that would be distancing yourself from your duty. Determining the fates of others on a case-by-case basis, considering the infinite combinations of circumstance, will wear on you like rain on the mountain. Give it enough time, and you’ll bear the scars.” He spoke out of kindness and sorrow, perhaps not as immutable as he claimed to be. “You will never be perfectly fair, and you will never be truly correct,” Lao Ge said. “This is your burden.” To keep deciding, over and over again.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi

“I saw how you were just yourself, without needing anyone to define you or be around you. I wanted to be like that, too.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

“That was what I meant, but life is like when you get off of a teacup ride, and sometimes you end up walking in the opposite direction from the way you mean to.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Had That Same Dream Again

“But you were the only one who was always just yourself, no matter who was around. What made you appealing wasn't your connections with other people. It was all you , and what you found inside yourself.”
― Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

“Happiness is something that you have to choose of your own volition, through your own words and actions, by letting yourself feel joy and excitement, by cherishing the people important to you, and cherishing yourself.”
― Yoru Sumino, また、同じ夢を見ていた

“I hate nice girls.
Just exchanging greetings with them will get them on your mind.
Start texting each other, and your heart will be set a flutter.
If they call you, you're done for.
Enjoy staring at your logs and grinning like a fool.
However, I won't get fooled again. That's what your kind calls kindness.
If you're nice to me, you're nice to others.
I always end up nearly forgetting that. Reality is cruel,
So I'm sure lies are a form of kindness.
Thus, I say kindness itself is also a lie.
I always ended up with these expectations.
And I always ended up with these misunderstandings.
And before I knew it, I stopped hoping.
A highly trained loner is once bitten, twice shy.
As a veteran on this battlefield of life, I've gotten used to losing.
That's why I always hate nice girls. — Hachiman Hikigaya”
― Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。1

“To me, socializing was like sinking to the bottom of a deep, deep ocean... Until eventually you couldn't take it anymore, and had to come up for air"

- Shimamura - Adachi to Shimamura”
― Hitoma Iruma, 電波女と青春男 1

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

“People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Make death proud to take us.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.”
― Joseph Campbell