Out Quotes

“You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell."
"Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes."
"You mean, there's no way to stop?"
"No, you stop all right - when you crash.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“I want to go home.' The moment the smell hit her, the words came into her head. She didn't know exactly what home it was she wanted to go to, certainly not the one she'd just left. But why didn't she want to go back there? And where did she want to go? She felt lost.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“She couldn't live her life as someone's prisoner the way he had lived his, caught up in a dream of the past, with no way forward and no way back, forced to dig down inside oneself.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“The woman had gasped beneath his heavy body. He rubbed against her, lubricated by the warm, sticky liquid, but as her body gradually grew cold, he felt as though they'd been glued together. She seemed to be see-sawing between agony and ecstasy, but finally Satake pressed his lips over hers to quiet the groans-of pain or pleasure-that were leaking from her mouth. He found the hole that he had made in her side and worked his finger deep into the opening. Blood was pumping from the wound, staining their sex a gruesome crimson. He wanted to get further inside, to melt into her. As he was about to come, he pulled his lips from her and she whispered in his ear: "I'm finished . . . finished."
"I know," he'd said, and he could still hear the exact sound of his own voice.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“Strange that she'd never known she had such cruelty inside.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“usually hatred was an emotion arising out of the desire to be accepted by another person,”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out: A dark, unflinching thriller about ordinary women pushed beyond the edge.

“Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Šla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo išče, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Jošijina, in prepričana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. Če so se za njo zaprla še ena vrata, nima druge izbire, kot da najde nova in jih odpre. Dvigalo, ki ji je prišlo naproti, je ječalo kot veter.

END.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Rez

“In the end the three of them were so completely estranged that it was hard to understand why they even lived together.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out: A dark, unflinching thriller about ordinary women pushed beyond the edge.

“You may think I’m crazy, but I don’t feel like I’ve done anything wrong. He deserved to die, so I’ve decided to pretend that he just went off somewhere instead of coming home tonight.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out: A dark, unflinching thriller about ordinary women pushed beyond the edge.

“So if she couldn’t even manage to get things right in her own family, why was she getting mixed up in Yayoi’s affairs? At a loss for an answer,”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out: A dark, unflinching thriller about ordinary women pushed beyond the edge.

“I'm desperate for money'. She said. 'And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you'. (Yoshie Azuma)”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“She could see now why she'd crossed over the line. She hadn't understood that it was despair that made her seek out this other world. That was her motive, her reason for helping Yayoi. But what had been waiting for her on the other side? Nothing, that's what. She stared down at her white hands still gripping the sofa. If they came now and arrested her, they'd never be able to find out why she'd done it; they'd find no trace of what had spurred her on. She could hear the sound of doors closing behind her, leaving her utterly alone.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“Did you pick out this outfit?" he asked, looking at her clothes.
"No," she said. She was wearing a cheap, bright red dress that she'd been given by another girl from the bar who shared the same apartment. "Someone gave it to me."
"I thought so," said Satake. "It doesn't suit you."
Then buy me on that does!--that was the sort of thing she would learn to say only later. That night she had just smiled vaguely to cover her embarrassment.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“Once she’d finished, she walked over to a garbage can to throw away the paper plate and cup; but, glancing inside it, she noticed a mass of flies gathered on a pile of noodles. If the bags ripped where she left them, she thought, the flies would come like this. The bits of flesh would rot, the flies would come, and then maggots…. Her mouth filled with a sour taste and, not for the first time that day, she felt like throwing up. She needed to get home and rest as soon as possible. Lighting a menthol cigarette, she set off across the wet grass.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“But I can tell you this: if you'd been the one in this fix, I'd have done the same for you.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“In the end, his trials with Masako had been the hardest ones...but they weren't really trials or tasks or tests at all: they were just facts that he could do nothing about. And that in itself was probably the real test: his ability to accept something that was completely beyond his control. It made him want to cry.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“He didn't want to rape her; he just wanted her to be nice to him.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“Era sufficiente rimuovere una piccola pietra scaldata dal sole per scoprire la terra umida e fresca. E lei, in quel momento, voleva assaporare a fondo l'oscurità del lato nascosto al sole.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

“Com'è facile cadere per un essere umano, non trovi?" mormorò, e Masako le rivolse uno sguardo pieno di compassione.
"Sì. Poi è come scendere precipitosamente per una china con una bicicletta senza freni".
"Vuoi dire che nessuno riesce più a fermarti?"
"Sì. A meno che non si vada a sbattere contro qualcosa”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out