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“Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

“On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

“An artwork doesn't become a masterpiece the moment it's finished in the atelier. It comes from the praise and critique of the vast numbers of people who've seen it. After receiving such influence, it then starts becoming a piece that art history can't ignore at that point.”
― Tsubasa Yamaguchi, ブルーピリオド 10 [Blue Period 10]

“I am not talented at all. It's just that I spend more time thinking about art than others. Also, thank you for your kind words, but... art still requires you to study various techniques and such. So when you simply call it talent like that, it makes it sound like I haven't done anything...”
― Tsubasa Yamaguchi, ブルーピリオド 1 [Blue Period 1]

“The love they talk about in books and songs is always sparkling... I'd always longed for it myself. I wanted to feel like I'd sprouted wings, like i was floating in the air... I had high hopes. And yet... my feet were still planted firmly on the ground.”
― Nio Nakatani, やがて君になる 1 [Yagate kimi ni naru 1]

“I've never been happy that I was born as myself but right now, just a little, I'm glad that I was born as me. and I'm glad that you were born as you.”
― Kaito, Blue Flag, Vol. 1

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground?”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I think now that’s all I want: for her to say something about me to somebody, or write my name somewhere”
― Emma Hunsinger

“Writing off the thing you love like it's just a hobby? Sounds like something only grown-ups would do, don't you think?”
― Tsubasa Yamaguchi, ブルーピリオド 1 [Blue Period 1]

“Just because I'm doing what I love, doesn't mean It's always going to be fun.”
― Tsubasa Yamaguchi

“I didn't know it was so scary... to declare you like something”
― Tsubasa Yamaguchi, ブルーピリオド 1 [Blue Period 1]

“When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)”
― Louis Sachar, Holes