Hit Parade of Tears Quotes

“Then again, all human beings are just actors. Everyone’s a fake. It’s one thing if you’re aware of it, but some people seem convinced the role they’re playing is the real them. They’re the worst.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Sometimes when you’re not getting any help from the outside world, self-affirmation’s the only way to go.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Maybe it was pretty normal to see the world that way: products over poetry—at least for a self-styled “classic beauty” like Michiko. The light of the sun and the song of the wind meant nothing to her. She couldn’t see it, couldn’t hear it.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“I blocked off the innermost reaches of my heart as a place where only I could go, not letting anyone peek in. But not because I couldn’t bear to open up. It was because I was convinced that nobody would ever understand me.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Didn't seem like anything would happen. Also seemed like anything could.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Her need for affeciton became a thoroughly necrotic, all-or-nothing pursuit. She knew it was making her all the more miserable, but much like someone dying of thirst who drinks seawater, she began hunting down his past.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Everything is the beginning and the end, a single moment is simultaneously a billion years. Start and end are one. There is no past, no present, no future. This is eternity. Knowing infinity is discovering your own universe, your own God.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“There are tons of people out there experiencing the world like they’re fictional characters, living out their lives with no backstory until somebody—a voice or another character—comes along to fill in the blanks.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Guys are so stupid … They judge me for the way I look and can’t see how amazing I truly am…”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Night doesn’t come on gradually, at a consistent speed. It holds itself back as long as it can, and then, as if to say, “Fuck it, I’m outta here,” it free-falls into darkness.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Now I sit in the sunroom all day, staring up at my little brother’s laparotomized remains. Time’s stopped moving. I’ve been forced into a blissful marriage for the benefit of science, with nothing to do now but wait for old age to take me. I never even think about leaving this place anymore. Now that all my malice is gone.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“This could be why I always seemed to wind up in relationships defined by mutual distaste and an inability to walk away.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“then, it was safe to assume that all men, as a rule, found me attractive. Most women can relate to that. So long as youth is on your side and your looks haven’t spoiled, you’ll get more attention than you know what to do with. It lasts until you’re twenty-four or so. You don’t even have to be exceptionally charming. And if you dress up, or do anything to make yourself stand out, they’ll come in droves.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

“Can you make it home alone?” he asked me, sounding honestly concerned. “What I mean is, when I saw you, I asked myself: can she make it in this world alone? Can she survive in this life on her lonesome? Sorry if that sounds crazy. But it crossed my mind.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears