The Real Gio

“I never doubted that you’d reach our final destination. I worried that contacting you or coming to see you would make it seem like I didn’t believe you could do it on your own.” “You remembered.” “Of course I did.” Shin said it with his usual placid tone, as if it was nothing at all, but there were no other words in the world that could have made Lena happier. He’d remembered—he’d believed in her and that she would catch up to them someday. Lena bit her lip. If there was ever a time to say what needed to be said, it was now, and if she didn’t take the opportunity, she’d likely never be brave enough again.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 4: Under Pressure

“Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1

“his raison d’être was to never flee in the face of death.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 5: Death, Be Not Proud

“The Eighty-Six weren’t buried in graves. There could be no graves when there were no casualties. Even collecting their remains was forbidden. Pigs masquerading as humans were denied the right to rest in peace, or even the right to mourn their dead comrades.”
― Asato Asato, 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 [Light Novel]