Hideyuki Kikuchi > Quotes

“Transient guests are we.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi

“Love is so great... So why does it have to go so wrong?”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathchase

“Awe becomes simple fear all too easily. And when it does, what does that leave but hatred?”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 11: Pale Fallen Angels - Parts One and Two

“Night changed the streets.
It dressed them in the mourning clothes named darkness, and applied the makeup called mystery.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer

“As he lay down, a slight sigh spilled from his thin lips. Most likely it was just his chest wound having its say. Of course, no one else would ever know for sure. D's sorrow, his joy, and his pain belonged to him alone.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 5: The Stuff of Dreams

“Nature takes no notice of the thoughts of men.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer

“If that guy don't look like the loneliest thing ever. And it ain't because he's turned his back on the world. With him, everybody's happy to see him coming, but no one's sorry to see him go. And anybody who catches sight of him is bound to step aside on account of the intense scent he's got about him.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane

“The baron had one hand pressed to the nape of his neck, and the chest of his shirt was speckled with drops of blood.
'Were you bitten?'
'Yes'
His face was pale, his lips colorless, and from them poked a pair of bloody red fangs - Taki's throat had been torn open.
'And that awoke it in you, too?'
D's ears caught a distant voice. *You were my only success.*
Taki's voice came back to him. *Save me D.*
D heard the blue voice.
'D - destroy me.'
'No one has hired me.'
'I'll be the client.'
'I see.'
For an instant, two streaks of light adorned the transparent morn. The light from the baron skimmed by D as the Hunter bent back far, imbedding itself in the floor, while D's blade pinned the Nobleman's chest to the wall.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 12: Pale Fallen Angels - Parts Three and Four

“The only things that merited reflection in the gorgeous young man’s eyes were death and destruction—and those alone.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 29: Noble Front

“That's why you must go. Why you must study many things. So you can tell them, tell the people who have forgotten everything, that for better or worse, humankind has created all of these things.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer

“Impossible!' the professor said as he gazed at D in utter disbelief. He realized something for the first time - the young man before him was an entirely different form of life from himself.'This just can't be,' he stammered. 'I used the Noble's secret...to make a new race...'
'You failed', the the voice said. 'There's only ever been one success.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 8: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two

“If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's thoughtful Nobles," the left hand jeered.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 17: Tyrant's Stars - Parts Three and Four

“Knights who go charging after fire-breathing dragons out of some sense of duty to protect their fair maidens die in vain.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer

“He had the air of a young poet listening to the song of the wind.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales

“Like a pastoral painting, green already covered the gently rolling terrain, and off in the distance a young Adonis stood in stark relief against the blue sky, walking as the wind fluttered the hem of his coat. One only had to draw a step closer, however, to be struck by the ineffable eldritch aura swelling from that tall, black-clad form to realize he was an otherworldly entity thoroughly in keeping with that perfectly preserved beauty.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales

“Moonlight glinting off the horn of a unicorn, prismatic dancing girls scattering flower petals, the land is transformed to a garden of luminescent grasses in those paintings, which showed shadow and light, symphonies of light and shadow . . .”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales

“This was a showdown between things that had the shape of men, but weren’t men.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales

“And when it comes to the woman he loves, I think he’d gamble his life and soul in battle and still die with a smile on his face. No matter how selfish the object of his affection might be.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 24: Throng of Heretics

“The setting sun was staining the far reaches of the plain, its hue closer to blood than vermilion. The wind snarled like a beast across the barren sky.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book One

“Studded with black hobnails, the great iron doors made an unspoken threat that things would only get worse as they split down the middle and swung open.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 14: Dark Road Parts 1 & 2

“The living corpse went to the jars and began a hair-raising activity. Skillfully removing the spring-loaded cap from one and plunging its hand in, it extracted the dripping entrails, ripped open its sealed wound, and lovingly pushed inwards, shoving its intestines back into their rightful place.”
― Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales