86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 Quotes

“Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights.

Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.”
― Asato Asato, 86―エイティシックス―

“commander of the rescue forces would go on to tell the Republic’s president and high officers, “If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“Democracy does not enable the majority to treat the minority however it wishes! Our national policy, the values of the five-hued flag, apply to everyone equally, and that was the basis for our constitution! How can we even pretend to be a Republic if we can’t even follow that?!”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“The Eighty-Six weren’t buried in graves. There could be no graves when there were no casualties. Even collecting their remains was forbidden. Pigs masquerading as humans were denied the right to rest in peace, or even the right to mourn their dead comrades.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“What kinda dumb ass hangs himself just because he knows he’s gonna die tomorrow? Even if you have no choice but to walk to the gallows, you can still choose how you’re gonna climb the steps. We’ve made our choice. All that’s left is to live by that.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“Reloading! Cover me!"

Theo shouted in between erratic breaths, his voice chipped by fatigue. Fido purged one of its six containers as it zipped bravely between lines of fire. That container's stocks of ammunition had been depleted, meaning they'd consumed almost 20 percent of the month's worth of ammunition they'd been given in just this short period of time. The moment they completely ran out would be their last. That fleeting thought passed through Raiden's mind, and he forced a smile. Bring it on. Living and dying like this was all they wanted.

Suddenly, one more person, another resonance target, connected to their conversation.

"First Lieutenant Shuga! I'm borrowing your left eye!"

A moment later, the vision in his left eye went dark, and then the
light returned to it immediately. The same voice spoke again:

"Shell fired! It's going to touch down-brace yourselves!

The next moment, the sky flashed white.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“We're off, Major.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“Major. Could you please...never forget us?”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“No…” It was a weak, faint plea, like a child on the verge of tears. “I don’t want to die…”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“—not once have you ever even asked us our names!”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“— Вам не страшно?
— Нам страшно. Але якщо ми не будемо боротися, ми не зможемо вижити.”
― Asato Asato, 86--EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“Посміхнувшись, Рей підняв очі до зоряного неба. Воно виблискувало зоряним пилом і, здавалося, мало б шуміти, але те, що воно завжди було таким тихим, здавалося Лені страшенно моторошним. Між ними і цим мерехтливим блиском була безмежна, безмежно глибока порожнеча непроглядної темряви.”
― Asato Asato, 86--EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“Не було сенсу ховати цього солдата в холодній, темній землі, коли у нього була власна подушка з вишневого цвіту, з якої він міг дивитися на сакуру.”
― Asato Asato, 86--EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“Oh… So you buried my corpse. Shin, you’re too kind…”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“It’s said that back during the days when the only strategy they had was to charge at the Legion with archaic rocket launchers or explosives in hand,”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“It was a needlessly elaborate, large-scale feeding system, which meant the Republic spared no expense so long as it meant they didn’t have to actually have contact with their so-called pigs. The food and goods produced by the factory were truly the bare essentials, and despite being called food, the rations they got every day looked like plastic explosives for some reason.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“The Republic abolished the class system in the revolution three hundred years ago.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“Of course I will. I even wrapped it up all cute-like, with pink wrapping paper and a ribbon and everything. Even put a message card with a kiss mark on it that says, ‘To my darling Theobald’… Left it in the mailbox of the apartment he’s renting with his mistress.” It took Lena a while to decide whether she should feel bad for him or not.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“I don’t give a rat’s ass what happens to a bunch of Eighty-Six,”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“You should know to treat livestock as livestock. You simply cannot get those barbarian Eighty-Six to understand human ideals and nobility. It only makes sense that we confine them to their cages and manage their lives.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]