Asato Asato > Quotes

“Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights.

Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.”
― Asato Asato, 86―エイティシックス―

“It is kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage.”
― Asato Asato, 86―エイティシックス―Ep.2 ―ラン・スルー・ザ・バトルフロント―〈上〉

“If we have to die, we’ll live each day without regrets—always smiling in the face of death. That was our one and only form of resistance.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“consider it human nature for people to sacrifice others to save themselves. But it’s also human nature to fight to protect one’s home and the people they hold dear.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 6: Darkest Before the Dawn

“…If we have to kill children because they’re unfamiliar to us… Because of a one in a million chance they might be a threat… If that’s what humankind has to do to survive, then we deserve to be wiped out.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 2: Run Through the Battlefront

“He may have had the face of a coldhearted Reaper and a blunt, indifferent attitude… But Shin was so wonderfully, awfully kind. So much that it hurt.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“Raiden forcibly cheered himself up by thinking about finding Shin and smacking him senseless.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 6: Darkest Before the Dawn

“commander of the rescue forces would go on to tell the Republic’s president and high officers, “If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“Having something to lose would just be a distraction. Having something to hold dear would just cause him to hesitate. If he didn’t cut away all the things that were unnecessary for battle…he would never survive.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“humankind built a large tower to reach God’s seat in the heavens. This ambition incurred God’s wrath, who then placed a curse upon humankind, forcing them to speak in different tongues. This caused the creation of multiple languages and became the source of human conflict.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 6: Darkest Before the Dawn

“Those who are kind are entitled to be happy. Those who are just ought to be rewarded. And if the human world isn’t made that way right now, then I want it to be that way… Because that’s how people make their ideals a reality—little by little.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 5: Death, Be Not Proud

“Democracy does not enable the majority to treat the minority however it wishes! Our national policy, the values of the five-hued flag, apply to everyone equally, and that was the basis for our constitution! How can we even pretend to be a Republic if we can’t even follow that?!”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“they are a nation of fools that clung to the empty rhetoric of being a democratic republic of equal rights for all, even as they generalized every other race but their own as Colorata. Distinction leads to discrimination, and discrimination leads to persecution.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 3: Run Through the Battlefront

“I never doubted that you’d reach our final destination. I worried that contacting you or coming to see you would make it seem like I didn’t believe you could do it on your own.” “You remembered.” “Of course I did.” Shin said it with his usual placid tone, as if it was nothing at all, but there were no other words in the world that could have made Lena happier. He’d remembered—he’d believed in her and that she would catch up to them someday. Lena bit her lip. If there was ever a time to say what needed to be said, it was now, and if she didn’t take the opportunity, she’d likely never be brave enough again.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“Human beings had a way of treating other people like objects or animals while, at the same time, cherishing objects and livestock as if they were people. Not even she could understand that all-too-ironic, fundamentally human cruelty.”
― Asato Asato, 86―エイティシックス―Ep.5 ―死よ、驕るなかれ―

“The Eighty-Six weren’t buried in graves. There could be no graves when there were no casualties. Even collecting their remains was forbidden. Pigs masquerading as humans were denied the right to rest in peace, or even the right to mourn their dead comrades.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“If we have to die, we’ll live each day without regrets—always smiling in the face of death. That”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“What’s the point of running away today if we’ll just end up dying tomorrow?”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 3: Run Through the Battlefront

“Even if the world you see isn’t beautiful… Even if the human world is cruel… If you can still have hope in spite of that…”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 6: Darkest Before the Dawn

“his raison d’être was to never flee in the face of death.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 5: Death, Be Not Proud

“to keep conscripted soldiers from deserting. They would introduce a young girl—around an age appropriate to play the soldiers’ little sister or daughter—into the squadron, giving her shelter and food, all the while trying to have them form a makeshift family. The hope was that the soldiers would be inspired to continue fighting, even to the death, all to protect their beloved “daughter.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 2: Run Through the Battlefront

“No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“Sins required punishment. Even if a sinner was never forgiven, they could atone by apologizing. But if the sin was forgotten, even that would be rendered impossible.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“Why do you ask…? What, Dustin, do you like me or something?” “Tha—” Dustin held his tongue for a moment and then spat the words out, half in desperation. “Y-yeah, I do! You got a problem with that?!”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 5: Death, Be Not Proud

“Waited upon by black and white Reginleifs from both sides, the Queen looked over the civilians. She wore her military cap like a crown, her silver hair fluttering like her mantle, and in place of a scepter, she had a rifle in hand.”
― Asato Asato, 86―エイティシックス―Ep.11 ―ディエス・パシオニス―

“It was a needlessly elaborate, large-scale feeding system, which meant the Republic spared no expense so long as it meant they didn’t have to actually have contact with their so-called pigs. The food and goods produced by the factory were truly the bare essentials, and despite being called food, the rations they got every day looked like plastic explosives for some reason.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]

“…All units, switch ammo to APFSDS.” APFSDS—Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“Shin, from now on, I'll be by your side in those hard times. I'll always be with you.

I'll never leave you behind. I won't make you sad. I'll be the one person you can trust to never hurt you. And...

"I love you, too.

"I want to spend my life with you. I want to see the sea again, and this time, I want it to be with you. I want us to see the sea you spoke of, together.”
― Asato Asato, ８６―エイティシックス―Ep.9　―ヴァルキリィ・ハズ・ランデッド―

“The other boys were one thing, but Lena couldn't let Captain Aegis act so friendly and unreserved toward Shin.

Get your hands off him. ”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 7: Mist