Kinoko Nasu > Quotes

“We don't choose the path we take because of the sins we carry. But we carry our sins on the path we choose.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“There are two ways to escape: escape without a purpose and escape with a purpose. I call the former 'floating', and the latter 'flight'.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“But see, there isn't a person in the world that doesn't know the weight of a sin. Maybe some people to whom the weight of sin is light instead of overbearing, but the weight is felt all the same, a small sin in the scope of their similarly small compassion, but enough to plant the doubt in him. And soon enough, that doubt grows into something they regret.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“When I was little, I was afraid of monsters. I mistook the silhouettes flitting to and fro in the midst of the bamboo trees for ghost and other horrors. But now, I'm scared of other people, people who you imagine will just jump out form behind the brush to attack you. What age was I when I started to replace the ghosts with people?”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Two years of oblivion have reduced me, if not to emptiness, than to something that sits closely beside it. It laid waste all that I was inside, and severed what connection existed between my memory and personality through two years of “living” like a shell, on the boundary of emptiness. And though there was precious little drama here compared to actual societal rejection, it drives me to worry all the same. All my memories are just reflections on the water, and I don’t know whether I’m the reflection or the real thing.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“humans are creatures who give meaning to meaningless actions, and derive purpose from it.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Your body produces some chemicals that stimulate some nerves that send a signal to your brain saying 'Oh my God, I am going to die,' and that's how you get pain.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“She had no reason to kill herself,"I say finally. "She just wasn't able to fly.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“If you think you've got nothing else left, then all you got is you. It'd be a big mistake to throw yourself away without good reason.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“Belief bends reality.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“In this way, reason represented by your knowledge, and experience represented by instinct -will start to conflict. Eventually, one will lose, and confusion sets in.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Because I think sins are things people individually carry, a burden that we ourselves make for our own fair share. Our sins become heavier the better our wisdom and common sense, and the greater our happiness.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“That’s what having no sensation is like: to be without a body, as if you’re ethereal, floating like a ghost. To not feel alive. "Seeing is believing” is doubly applicable to someone like her.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Different minds perceive different things, but all are imprisoned, asleep in a paradigm of material reality. Awakened minds bearing a more malleable paradigm, such as those of mages, can bend its rules, but never truly break them. To cross that boundary is to become something more and less human. A god, but absent the restraint.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“Because there's nothing for me to tell. You didn't do anything, right?”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上

“From this moment forth, my sword shall be with you and your fate shall be with me.”
― Kinoko Nasu, Fate/Stay Night

“I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing more than a distant paradise. As one who can never achieve divinity, all I could do is ponder that with all of my might.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 未来福音

“Not enough will to live, but not enough will to die either.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“The Archer's class really is made up of archers”
― Kinoko Nasu

“I cannot save any man, for I too am a man. But if that is what is fated,
then perhaps I may be admitted, at least, to record death, to craft a morbid
history of observance that suggests the cycle of souls. I would make a proof
of lives ended and suffered. And so my chronicle of death began.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“People die if they are killed”
― Kinoko Nasu

“Everyone had a choice. To lament the little time they had left, or to gamble on it? Perhaps we find things beautiful because they don’t last. Someday, this would all end…but not just yet." - From Mahoutsukai no Yoru (Witch on the Holy Night)”
― Kinoko Nasu

“I am the bone of my sword. Steel is my body, and fire is my blood. I have created over a thousand blades. Unknown to death. Nor known to life. Have withstood pain to create many weapons. Yet, those hands will never hold anything. So as I pray, ‘Unlimited Blade Works”
― Kinoko Nasu

“A dream is something you see only once, not something that can continue.”
― Kinoko Nasu, Garden of Avalon

“The key was important because it protected my family, a proof that a family to protect even existed.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“It's those unseen, unvoiced things that form love. And it isn't right to give voice to them, or else they might turn into lies.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“Drown in your ideals and die!”
― Kinoko Nasu

“The key to the house protects our family, so that even when mom and dad are out of the house, it'll be alright. It's proof of the fact that we're family, and we protect each other.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“El único enemigo al que debes enfrentarte no es otro más que tú mismo.”
― Kinoko Nasu

“There was no end to human desire.
The perfect life was an unattainable dream. The only way to really win was to say with your dying breath that you had truly enjoyed living.” - From Mahoutsukai no Yoru (Witch on the Holy Night)”
― Kinoko Nasu