Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

I'm going to live to be twenty-five,' she said, 'then die.

I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

I don't dream. Come to think of it, I haven't had any dreams in a long time.