

“Now I’m not blaming anything on her—I take full responsibility for my own actions— but it was Annette’s betrayal that began my slow spin downward to insanity. ”
― Addicted to Time
― Addicted to Time

“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons

“So, everything that’s happened, that’s just the way life is, and it’s never going to be the way you think you want it. I’m not embarrassed about my brother, but I just don’t want to relive it, because people ask, “Oh, where’s your brother, what’s he doing?” and I have to say I don’t know, I haven’t seen him in over 30 years.”
― Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
― Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“She was overwhelmed with a premonition. Deja vu but from the future, looking back to this moment looking forward.”
― Black Fire
― Black Fire

“One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable of coming to such a realization, this was what it came down to: he, Kazuo Kiriyama, felt no emotion, no guilt, no sorrow, no pity, towards the four corpses, including Mitsuru's—and that ever since the day he was dropped into this world theway he was, he had never once felt a single emotion.”
― Battle Royale
― Battle Royale
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