Jacque > Jacque's Quotes

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?”
― Natsuki Takaya

“Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... "
- Shigure Sohma”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

“We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman, Volume 3: Debut and Impatience

“Hey Nana,
If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?”
― Ai Yazawa

“In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.”
― Ai Yazawa

“The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.”
― Ai Yazawa

“But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 14

“I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live. Boring damned people all over the earth, propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Kami Garcia