Shūichi Yoshida > Quotes

“Until I met you," she said, "I never realized how precious each day could be. When I was working, each day was over before I knew it, and then a week just flew by, and then a whole year...What have I been doing all this time? Why didn't I meet you before? If I had to choose a whole year in the past, or a day with you-I'd choose a day with you...”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Villain

“There're too many people in the world like you," Yoshio said. "Too many people who don't have anyone they care about. Who think if they don't love anyone else then they're free to do whatever they want. They think they have nothing to lose, and that makes them stronger. If you have nothing to lose, there's nothing you really want, either. You're full of confidence, and look down on people who lose things, who want things, who are happy, or sad sometimes. But that's not the way things are. And it's just not right.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Villain

“Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be aimed at the one who killed her, but all he could picture was Yoshino being literally kicked out of that car.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Villain

“Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in.”
― Shuichi Yoshida, Villain

“If you break out of this world you’ll find this world again, only one size larger . . .”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade

“When people count on someone, the person they’re counting on doesn’t realise it. I mean - they might notice it, but they don’t understand how seriously, how desperately, the other person’s depending on them.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade

“I hate that word."
"What word?"
"Truth. I don't feel any truth in it.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade

“teach elementary school kids at an after-hours juku, so I’m used to hearing names like that that don’t sound exactly Japanese, the kind of names that are trendy now. In the class I teach, there’s a boy named Raymond, and girls named Sheru and Tiara. It’s enough to make a teacher pull out his hair.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Villain: A Novel

“Les filles qui font du ballet, elles ont quelque chose de bien tranché. Pour moi, c’est un peu comme si elles n’avaient pas besoin des hommes.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Park Life

“Se peut-il que la raison qui fait que je ne l’aime pas et celle qui fait que je l’aime soient absolument les mêmes ?”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Park Life

“[...] Tuttavia non mi sarei mai scusata per essere fuggita. Se mi fossi scusata, l'avrei obbligato a perdonare quell'atteggiamento così stupido e puerile.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade

“世之介と出会った人生と出会わなかった人生で何かが変わるだろうかと、ふと思う。多分何も変わりはない。ただ青春時代に世之介と出会わなかった人がこの世の中には大勢いるのかと思うと、なぜか自分がとても得をしたような気持ちになってくる。”
― Shūichi Yoshida, 横道世之介 [Yokomichi Yonosuke]

“It was tough coming to the realization that I wasn’t interested in anything, though realizing it didn’t mean I could then immediately find something to engage my interest. I tried to think of something. Maybe I could study a foreign language or study abroad in Rome or somewhere? Or, more realistically, grab some guy I knew and have a destination wedding abroad. But everything I could think of was based on how envious it would make people, not on any genuine interest I might have.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade

“Temía que, si no mataba sus mentiras de inmediato, la verdad moriría.”
― Shuichi Yoshida

“So che hai paura, ma non devi scappare. Scappare non cambierà le cose. Se scappi, nessuno ti potrà mai aiutare.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, 悪人 下 [Akunin ge]

“Mais si mon champ visuel est saturé et que je me demande ce que je vois vraiment, par exemple dans l’image imprimée sur la rétine par le gobelet de Starbucks de tout à l’heure, ce qui émerge et prend forme alors sous mes yeux, c’est l’intérieur d’un Starbucks à ma première visite, lors d’un voyage en solitaire à New York à l’époque où j’étais étudiant, et voilà que se mettent à flotter sous mon nez le délicieux arôme des grains de café grillés et le parfum de la cannelle.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Park Life

“Pourtant, quand je vous vois assis là-bas depuis mon banc, vous me faites l’effet de pouvoir tenir des heures et des heures sans parler à personne.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Park Life

“— La saveur du Starbucks ?

— Oui, on dit souvent : si on n’a pas accouché, on ne peut pas comprendre ; si on n’a pas perdu ses parents ou si on n’a pas vécu à l’étranger, on ne peut pas comprendre. Des phrases comme ça… C’est exactement pareil. Je n’ai rien fait de spécial, mais avant même que je m’en aperçoive, je suis devenue celle qui comprend la saveur du café qu’il y a là-bas. »”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Park Life

“Sentía una necesidad desconocida de hablarle de sí mismo a otra persona. Quería conocer a alguien con quien pudiera hablar.”
― Shuichi Yoshida

“Non ho la più pallida idea di chi sia questo "vero sé" che la gente si affanna tanto a cercare, né tantomeno potrebbe importarmene se poi quello che trovano è un "vero sé" che gli fa schifo [...]”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade

“Mon regard est revenu vers la mare de Shinji pour la contempler. Elle a dit : « Lorsqu’on regarde la mare d’en haut, on y lit l’idéogramme du cœur, non ? » Maintenant qu’elle me le dit, c’est vrai qu’il y a quelque chose. J’ai essayé de superposer l’idéogramme "Shin" sur la mare.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Park Life

“Penso che quando uno fa affidamento su un altro, quando conta sul serio su qualcun altro, quello non se ne rende conto. Forse intuisce qualcosa, ma non capisce quanto sia seria, persino disperata, quella dipendenza.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade