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"You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you."
"What's nurtured slowly grows well."
"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."
"Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn’t have known."
"A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else."
"Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life."
"I'm not so weird to me."
"What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow."
"In dreams begins responsiblities."
"People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love."
"Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner."
"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
"Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life"
"Time flows in a strange way on Sundays."
"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."
"She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble."
"The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings."
"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe."
"You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing."