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“…If we see shooting stars, what would you wish for, Punpun?
Wishing upon shooting stars doesn’t make them come true.
Right, but what if. What would you wish if they did…?
I’d wish for shooting stars to disappear forever.”
― Inio Asano, おやすみプンプン 11 [Oyasumi Punpun 11]

“Nothing was strong enough to stand against the passage of time.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“... back then the sky seemed so vast.

And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.”
― Inio Asano, Solanin

“That time always ends a second before you’re ready.

That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I don't want to scare you," he said, "but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.”
― ASANO INIO

“I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Absolutely.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.”
― Inio Asano

“I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“All my life
I have been restless-
I have felt there is something
more wonderful than gloss-
than wholeness-
than staying at home.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.”
― Charles M. Schulz