Yukako Kabei > Quotes

“God is a man of such perfect, flawless character that he only watches over everyone equally -- the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor -- and never plays favorites or reaches His hand out to any of them. Oh, what a wonderful God. He can just drop dead.”
― YUKAKO KABEI, Kieli, Volume 1: The Dead Sleep in the Wilderness

“For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 6: The Sunlit Garden Where It Began, Part 2

“I’ll try just putting one foot in front of the other, and walk a step at a time without rushing. So I can burn the path into my memory while I can still see it. So that when all this is over, I can find my way back. Because I intend to come back. Hopefully with all of us together.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls

“A guy with no will to live isn't worth killing.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls

“All at once it was just too much, and Harvey felt something about to snap. He drew back into the shadowy side of the doorway, out of site. Then he slid down the wall to the ground and put his palm over his mouth to hold in his breath and his feelings both. He'd forced in more air then he could hold, and his lungs were burning. More importantly, his heart hurt... He wished he hadn't eavesdropped.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls

“Now, Kieli believed in the words 'no matter what.' Maybe there weren't really any 'no matter whats' in this world, but right now, she believed that there were with all her heart.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 8: The Dead Sleep Eternally in the Wilderness, Part 1

“I want to take one last journey together, just the three of us, and go back to Easterbury… and let the Corporal relax and rest in peace. I’ll be with you, Kieli, I’ll still be with you… Won’t that do…?”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls

“Back then, living hadn't had any meaning. Every so often, without any warning or any real reason, he'd even caught himself thinking, 'Maybe I'll try dying.' He'd had one foot in the world of the dead, and yet the other foot had been chained to the world of the living, and he couldn't pull it out; he'd just looed on disinterestedly, sort of like it was all happening on the other side of some window, as the dull, vague world passed him by. Never making any more to walk out into it himself. Somewhere along the way, though, he'd stopped thinking about trying to die. He wondered when that had happened.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 9: The Dead Sleep Eternally in the Wilderness, Part 2

“And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each corpse in turn, he thought with all his heart, I’m glad I didn’t die there. I have to go home. I’ve still got things to do.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls

“I can't be the center of your world, Kieli; it just won't do. I mean, if you stay like this, I wouldn't be able to go anywhere. I'll never be able to leave you behind again. Once I'm gone, what are you going to do?!”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls

“Please, please, if there's anyone on this planet with the power to perform miracles, let us all be able to be together next year, and the year after that, and all the years after that one, too. ...I know. I'm not stupid. I know I said I didn't want anything, and now I'm wishing for the most unrealistic, hardest thing I ever could. I must be way more of a selfish crybaby now than I was back when I really didn't have anything.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 8: The Dead Sleep Eternally in the Wilderness, Part 1

“What is this?! I couldn't die back when I would've been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take hardly any effort, suddenly I can't afford to yet? What the hell am I supposed to do?”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls

“So we’ll test him to see if he’ll die or not. If he’s an Undying, he won’t die no matter what we do.” “What if he’s a normal human?” “If he dies, we’ll know he was normal.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Vol. 1 (light novel): The Dead Sleep in the Wilderness (Kieli (novel))

“Maybe God really was on their planet. And He was a man of such perfect, flawless character, that He watched over everyone equally — the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor — and never played favorites or reached His hand out to any of them. Oh, what a wonderful God. He can just drop dead.”
― Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Vol. 1 (light novel): The Dead Sleep in the Wilderness (Kieli (novel))