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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Am I not merciful?”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“I have forgotten much, and I will forget more, and in the end I will forget everything.”
― Neil Gaiman, How to Talk to Girls at Parties

“Not all new knowledge is beautiful, or even to be desired. Yet there comes a time when, no matter how hard it is to accept what we see, no matter how much we do not want to believe it, our studies will cease and we will learn no more. Though the world may point and criticize, if the truth has been found, sometimes you must shout it from the rooftops in the face of all opposition. The pursuit of knowledge requires an iron will that always looks forward and never falters.”
― Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story

“Your adventure is your own. No one may ever take it from you.”
― Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story

“Look at yourself. Hatred and anger, kindness and bravery. They are all yours, and rightly so. Accept this, face it straight on, then ask yourself what it means to change your destiny.”
― Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story

“No matter how confused, how tired, or how sad, every night has its morning.”
― Miyuki Miyabe, Brave Story

“Maybe the times I couldn't move were the times I needed to take better care of myself.”
― nagata kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I also realized that becoming the adult my parents wanted me to be was on an entirely different path from becoming the adult I wanted to be — and it had always been that way.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But [is] not all right to run away.”
― Miyuki Miyabe, Ico: Castle in the Mist

“Up until then, i'd never understood how people could just keep on living (...) Maybe I had a place to belong, but it wasn't something definite, like a seat. It was flowing and formless... Perhaps inside of me, perhaps outside of me. A reason to live, the power to live, a place to belong in this world... I think the essence of that sweet nectar varies from person to person.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“But it's easy to understand thr pain when it's my body that's being hurt. It calms me down. I don't really understand the pain in my heart. It doesn't have any real form.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I think loneliness isn't being physically alone- it’s when the people around you don't recognize who you are or your abilities.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon”
― Hiro Arikawa, Nana Du Ký

“My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye