Mizuki Tsujimura > Quotes

“In another world, we were already friends.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“You're battling every single day, aren't you?”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“If you try hard, you will always see results, and it will never be wasted no matter what you end up doing in life.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“So I am no longer alone. I’ve been hoping something like this will happen for such a long time. Though I know it never will.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We’ll fight this,’ her mother said, her voice trembling. ‘It might be a long battle, but let’s fight it. Let’s do it, Kokoro.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“All we’ll have left are these memories. We won’t be able to help each other.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“The musty smell that hit your nostrils whenever you ventured into the far corner of a tiny bookstore, the place where few people ever went. A smell she loved.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“She understood the fear. Not knowing what the future would be for her, not knowing how long she’d be like this. Seeing people who were moving on was enough to make her feel an excruciating pain in her chest.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“A hypothetical reality seemed preferable to present reality, and the more she fantasized about how great it would if certain things could come true, the more reality that world seemed to take on.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket.

They are all out there somewhere.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“It's better to do something and regret it than to regret not doing it at all.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

“If somebody manipulated your thoughts and feelings, would you still be the same person as before?”
― Mizuki Tsujimura

“What made her happiest, and most relieved, was if they all left her alone.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“I sometimes find myself dreaming.
A new transfer student has started at our school, and everyone wants to be friends with them. The most cheerful, kind and athletic person in our class. And smart, too.
Out of all my classmates this new student picks me out with a generous smile, as dazzling as the sun, and says, ‘Kokoro-chan, it’s been such a long time.’
The other students can’t believe it. ‘What?’ they say, looking at me meaningfully. ‘Do you two already know each other?’
In another world, we were already friends.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We should have had a real heart-to-heart, she thought. We shouldn’t have parted like that, after arguing.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“The embroidered name tag said Mizumori.
I feel as if – I know his name, Kokoro thought. Her eyes widened.
Because she sometimes had a dream.
A dream of a transfer student arriving.
And among all her many classmates he noticed her, and a smile as dazzling as the sun spread over his face. He said, ‘Good morning.’ And he smiled.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Thank you for loving me. Lies and all.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

“People are designed to feel grief only over the death of someone they truly love.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

“It's a gift to live in the world at the same time as the person you have in your heart.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

“Only with kids who had gone through similar experiences could she really open up about what had happened, and how it made her feel. And now she’d gone and closed the door on that opportunity, and it was painful.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We live on...with sadness carved into our hearts. That's what makes us beautiful.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura

“We exchanged glances, then turned on the faucet and watched it release a silver stream of water, glistening like the magical life-giving waterfalls of Japanese folk tales. We splashed water on to our faces. Our skin and hair dried in a flash under the sun's glare. 'I feel alive!' Misono cried, her shiny, freshly washed forehead aglow. We're water thieves, we giggled.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

“You might think it’s easier just to apologize”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

“Anyway”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

“Teach her a lesson.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We may have lived full lives, but nobody said they were happy because you were gone,” Hachiya said sharply, catching Ayako by surprise. He stood and walked slowly toward her, then kneeled respectfully before her. “Your parents, your friends, Shoji, and myself… we’ve all gone our separate ways, but each of us wished we could have spent our lives with you. If I had the choice now, even if it meant not having my restaurant or my family, I would choose to live in a world that had you in it. I’m sure everybody else feels the same way. You have and will continue to live in our hearts.” He looked into her eyes. “That is what I have come here to say.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

“We are all kids going to the same junior high”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We exchanged glances, then turned on the faucet and watched it release a silver stream of water, glistening like the magical life-giving waterfalls of Japanese folk tales. We splashed water on to our faces. Our skin and hair dried in a flash under the sun's glare. 'I feel alive!' Misono cried, her shiny, freshly washed forehead aglow. We're water thieves, we giggled.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

“I'm afraid of being forgotten. It would be the same as dying.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, A School Frozen in Time, Vol. 1