Confessions

by Kanae Minato

After school that day, we all got the same text—“If you tell what A and B did, you’re C”—though we never did figure out who sent it.

Weak people find even weaker people to be their victims. And the victimized often feel that they have only two choices: put up with the pain or end their suffering in death. But they’re wrong. The world you live in is much bigger than that. If the place in which you find yourself is too painful, I say you should be free to seek another, less painful place of refuge. There is no shame in seeking a safe place. I want you to believe that somewhere in this wide world there is a place for you, a safe haven.

I suspect most people have been taught to value life above all else. And yet those same people also support the death penalty in the case of particularly brutal crimes—without seeing the inconsistency in their own position.

Our values are determined by the environment we grow up in; and we learn to judge other people based on a standard that’s set for us by the first person we come in contact with—which in most cases is our mother.

It was too painful to realize that the one person in the world I loved was suffering by the very fact of my existence.

Planting the bomb has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I killed the class president.

holy shit this book really keeps givin me whiplash

Funny—I think I’ve finally had my fill of revenge now. And with luck, I’ve at last started you out on the road to your own recovery.

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