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“No matter how good a person you think you've become...
...someday, you get what's coming to you.”
― 聲の形 5 [Koe no Katachi 5]
...someday, you get what's coming to you.”
― 聲の形 5 [Koe no Katachi 5]
“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you. My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you. My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.51”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
“Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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