Quotes from Natsuo Kirino

It gave me a great deal of pleasure, as I have already said, to indulge in these fantasies. I would join clubs, make friends, and live an ordinary life like any other ordinary person. But reality tore these dreams to shreds.

You may think I'm crazy, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. He deserved to die, so I've decided to pretend that he just went off somewhere instead of coming home tonight.

In the end the three of them were so completely estranged that it was hard to understand why they even lived together.

The thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.

I clearly wasn't in the inner circle, nor was I a member of the orbiters. I wasn't sure if I even fit into the category of outsider. Then was I even lower than garbage? Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other side?

Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.

Most of the kids I know read only manga, but I prefer novels. Novels are closer to real life than manga, it's like they show you the real world with one layer peeled away, a reality you can't see otherwise.

Because I love somebody I don't trust anymore, I've lost all faith in myself. I bet it's like this when parents abuse their children. Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore. Check it out, Worm. This is what I mean by something irreparable.

In the end, his trials with Masako had been the hardest ones...but they weren't really trials or tasks or tests at all: they were just facts that he could do nothing about. And that in itself was probably the real test: his ability to accept something that was completely beyond his control. It made him want to cry.

In February of the same year, a local resident reported seeing the defendant take the condoms the hotel supplied its guests, fill them with water, and hurl the water-filled condoms from a hotel window at the cat owned by the sushi shop next door.

She was willing to put herself out for others, but when it was just for her, it hardly mattered.

But I can tell you this: if you'd been the one in this fix, I'd have done the same for you.

If there was a reason why people were attracted to one another, she wished someone would tell her.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die.

He didn't want to rape her; he just wanted her to be nice to him.

Bu yolu seçti, çünkü insan alemini yöneten kurallar hakk?nda daha fazla bilgi edinmek istiyordu. Ä°nsanlar?n nas?l böylesine karanl?k ve bencil tutkular besleyebileceÄŸini anlamak istiyordu.Bütün insanlar ölür. Ama ölümden sonra onlara ne olur? Ruhun bir bedenden diÄŸerine geçmesi mümkün mü?

Nihai analizde, dine bula?an insanlar yaln?zca kendi ki?isel mutluluklar?n?n pe?inde gibidir. Yan?l?yor muyum?

I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.

Com'è facile cadere per un essere umano, non trovi? mormorò, e Masako le rivolse uno sguardo pieno di compassione. Sì. Poi è come scendere precipitosamente per una china con una bicicletta senza freni. Vuoi dire che nessuno riesce più a fermarti? Sì. A meno che non si vada a sbattere contro qualcosa

Era sufficiente rimuovere una piccola pietra scaldata dal sole per scoprire la terra umida e fresca. E lei, in quel momento, voleva assaporare a fondo l'oscurità del lato nascosto al sole.

Me, I just want to wear ordinary clothes and not stand out.

And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.

In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it's gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted.

Did you pick out this outfit? he asked, looking at her clothes. No, she said. She was wearing a cheap, bright red dress that she'd been given by another girl from the bar who shared the same apartment. Someone gave it to me. I thought so, said Satake. It doesn't suit you. Then buy me on that does!--that was the sort of thing she would learn to say only later. That night she had just smiled vaguely to cover her embarrassment.