The Girl from the Well Quotes

“It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.

But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“Few stories start with death. Often, it starts with grief.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and I get into enough trouble with them as it is.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“Even then I found the word fitting, soothing.

Fireflies.

Fire flies.

Fire, fly.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“The previous owners left nothing of themselves here: no happiness, no grief, no pain. It is the best anyone can wish
for in a place to stay.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“I am beginning to understand that there are better things than retribution.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about comforting the people they leave behind.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“I am where dead children go.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“When you have resigned yourself to an eternity filled with little else but longing, a few seconds is enough.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“Dinner that night is a feast of flavor. To celebrate the successful exorcism, Kagura has cooked several more dishes than the shrine's usual, simple fare- fragrant onigiri, balls of rice soaked in green tea, with umeboshi- salty and pickled plums- as filling. There is eggplant simmered in clear soup, green beans in sesame sause, and burdock in sweet-and-sour dressing. The mood is festive.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“This is why boys don't play with dolls. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go and freak out in the next room.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“And yet she feels no pain and watches placidly as the Smiling Man is enveloped in a mass of hair that tears him into pieces.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“It is not in my nature to be interested in the living. But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“She wraps both arms around herself and shivers before turning to enter, pulling the large doors closed behind her.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

“Men, right? Bastards, no matter the time or place.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well