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“I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.”
― Ai Yazawa

“His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him”
― Ai Yazawa, 天使なんかじゃない―完全版 1 [Tenshi nanka janai - Kanzenban 1]

“But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 14

“In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)”
― Ai Yazawa

“People are only what they think of themselves.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Hey, Nana...
people's feelings change easily...
what you see is a house of cards...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Hey Nana,
If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?”
― Ai Yazawa

“The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.”
― Ai Yazawa

“If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?
Humans are full of contradictions.”
― Ai Yazawa

“I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.”
― Ai Yazawa

“They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.”
― Ai Yazawa

“The things that stress me out haven't changed.
But I don't wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.”
― Ai Yazawa

“We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again...”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.”
― Ai Yazawa

“People can have lovers, they can have friends, they can be together. But when you think about it, you'll see that originally... we're alone.”
― Ai Yazawa

“I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Nana... How come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...”
― Ai Yazawa

“Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.”
― Ai Yazawa

“I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
---Yasu”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 17

“I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart...Straightforward, unwavering...It seems like such a simple thing, so then why.......Must it be so incredibly hard?”
― Ai Yazawa

“You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.”
― Ai Yazawa

“I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings...”
― Ai Yazawa

“Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.”
― 矢沢 あい (a.k.a. Ai Yazawa)

“Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. ”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“I wasn't really able to love someone but I couldn't help but want to be loved.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 4

“Hey, Hachi
People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it--- but I think, you only really recognize it... when you see it a second time face to face.
-Nana Osaki”
― Ai Yazawa

“The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.”
― Ai Yazawa

“People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 14