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“When your world breaks, your self also breaks. But for me, the world’s always been broken. It’s all chaotic, out of my control. I’m sure that’s why I try to sort and organise it so much. I want to have it all contained in the palm of my hand.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“But the same night will continue on. Today is just yesterday, continued. Tomorrow is just today, continued. Day breaks, night falls, day breaks. Night probably falls again. The little details differ, sure. But for the most part, everything is pretty much the same, and I feel neither more nor less sluggish today than I did last Thursday. I am sluggish. But still compelled to dance. Provided there’s some variety to the music.

I’m trapped inside an invisible cage, you see. I can’t leave it. I feel so hollow and futile it makes me sick. It’s easy, though.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“I’m chasing after vanished fantasies. The beautiful, the flashy, the suave, the curious, the feel-good, anything. Be it fake or counterfeit or whatever.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire

“I must forgive myself for being in some of the situations I’ve been in. For staying. For putting up with less than I deserve. There is no shame in what I went through.”
― Lily Collins, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me