Dragon Sword and Wind Child Quotes

“It's true that some mistakes can never be amended no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean it's all right to give up before you even try.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“I will never dream again. For I can never again forget who I am. I realized that when I couldn't escape from the pain.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“Even though he saw an entire field covered with flowers, Chihaya never thought to pick them. Instead, he took me to see the place where they were blooming.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“Although she tried not to let the rumors that she had followed the Prince out of vanity bother her, she had known that it was partly true. Her aching heart, however, gradually informed her that it was much more than just partly true.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the essential—a regrettable situation.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“Chihaya, however, looked at her in surprise. "Why should I be sorry? Morning Star is here, and so are you." Saya was somewhat relieved, although a little annoyed that he put his horse before her.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It was no ordinary man but the Prince of Light who was asking her to be his bride. And, she thought gloomily, what sacrifice might she have disregarded had his gaze been only for her?”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“It is impossible for us to accurately convey the real purpose of either Light or Darkness to such a mass of people from different homelands and with such differing viewpoints. Good is good, evil is evil. Unless we make everything black-and-white, we cannot inspire them to follow us”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child

“Let me speak as a physician, Lady Blue: the primary cause of your melancholy is that for too long you have lacked contact with the earth, with water, with green and growing plants. You are not the kind of person who can live apart from these things. Like a wild bird in a cage, you will lose the will to live. You have to get outside.”
― Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child