Kōhei Kadono > Quotes

“Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta)”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh Vol 1

“Rather than ask yourself if you are correct, it is far more realistic to think about how you are mistaken. Most humans have not been designed to be right very often.”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 1

“There's nothing in this world that is ever truly decided. Birds sometimes fall out of the sky, and sometimes it snows in April. Everything is uncertain, nothing is 'unnatural.”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 1

“Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop And Others

“Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs pounce on the same food, but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be described as incoherent.”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop at Dawn

“There's a bug inside you. Growing in you, eating everything you've forced yourself to forget, everything you don't want to think about. Your bug will decide your fate one day. And... chances are, you will die because of it.”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop at Dawn

“Possibility, or what we refer to as imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%. The problem is, this 1% is simultaneously referred to as Evil.”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 1

“Little failures add up... till disappointed, they give up. Somewhere in their heart, they know they've lost. Just. Like. You.”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop Dual: Loser's Circus, Volume 2

“Aya's eyes were vacant. But her lips were faintly trembling. Not from fear, but rather because she was whispering something under her breath. So quietly that no one else could hear, so quietly the sound did not even reach her own ears, over and over: 'I must save Masaki, I must save Masaki, I must save Masaki...”
― Kouhei Kadono, Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 1

“Being alive means you have to come into contact with other people. No matter how hard you try, you will end up hurting some of those people. There’s nothing we can do about it. That’s just life.”
― Kōhei Kadono, Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 2

“Hope, despair, joy, grief, love, hatred, ecstasy, loathing, heaven, hell, the past, the future, yesterday, today, tomorrow, dreams, nightmares and the world...
All made by man.
And what man made, man can destroy.”
― Kōhei Kadono, Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion

“He asked me, ‘Nagi, what do you think about being normal?’
“I didn’t know what he meant, so I shook my head.
“He said, ‘Normal means you leave everything as it is and nothing ever changes. If you don’t like that, you’ve got to do things that aren’t normal.”
― Kōhei Kadono, Boogiepop And Others

“You’ve still got plenty of time,” Asukai nodded. He didn’t dare add, But all your efforts and memories will never be appreciated by anyone else. That revelation would only be utterly futile.”
― Kōhei Kadono, Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 1