Zoo Quotes

“The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“I thought about my death. It was not just a matter of stopping. It would be a parting from all there was in this world, even a parting from myself. And this would still be true no matter how much I loved something. This is what made death so terribly sad.”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“I had the sense that these locked rooms were more than just a place to hold us. I thought they must be something more important, locking up our very lives and souls, isolating us, stripping even the light from us. This was a prison of the soul. This room had taught me a true loneliness of a kind I had never seen or experienced before, and the meaninglessness of a life without a future.”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“In playback mode I watch her decay. The bugs swarm all over her face, eating her flesh and then moving on. It is like an ocean wave made up of insects.”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“I gave birth to you. Your life and death are in my hands, and nobody can do anything about it!”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

“I continued my act. This was a one-man show. I was the actor. I was the audience.”
― Otsuichi, Zoo