Solo Dance Quotes

“We go on journeys in order to find a better version of ourselves, and each time we do we gain something new.”
― Kotomi Li, Solo Dance

“She didn’t have a strong inclination towards death, but she had no attachment to living either. While she still had breath in her lungs, she would do her best in life, yet should it ever reach that point where it was no longer bearable, she would choose death without hesitation.”
― Li Kotomi, Solo Dance

“I’m sick of hiding in my shell. It’s this glass shell that has distanced me from the world, protecting me from it. If I avoid interacting with people more than I need to, then I can avoid getting hurt more than I need to as well. But … if the outside world has a place for me, then I want to try going out there to find it.”
― Kotomi Li, Solo Dance

“Why should I have to feel this burden when it’s everyone else who doesn’t understand me?”
― Kotomi Li, Solo Dance

“Death leads all of life to an equal end, heals all wounds without bias.”
― Kotomi Li, Solo Dance

“Am I afraid of something? If I had pursued that thought, I would have easily come to a conclusion. No one reads my diary, so I don't have to worry about what anyone will think. But stories are different. They're written to be read—even if you're alone during the writing process, eventually another pair of eyes is supposed to see it. I couldn't face that inevitability.”
― Kotomi Li, Solo Dance

“These questions came to her lips as she watched the other her in the glass window, hovering out over the cityscape. Her other self simply opened and closed her mouth, floating silently in the nothingness. She reached out her hand towards the glass and her other self moved closer too, until their palms were touching. The glass spread its coolness through her body. The clouds that floated over the mass of office buildings seemed nothing more than masses of turbid ash. She sighed. The warmth clouded the glass, obscuring her other face.”
― Li Kotomi, Solo Dance

“Death leads all of life to an equal end, heals all wounds without bias. It would be a lie to say a small part of her didn’t agree with that. Maybe her way of thinking was in the minority. After all, it was true that she couldn’t speak easily of the future the way her colleagues did.”
― Li Kotomi, Solo Dance