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“Great sorrow and great happiness are, in this regard, similar. They both require distance from others.”
― Half a Lifelong Romance
― Half a Lifelong Romance
“You selfishly decided to love them and selfishly decided to hate them. You selfishly put store in them and were selfishly disappointed by them. You selfishly felt enchanted and selfishly felt disillusioned.”
― NEKOMONOGATARI (BLACK): Cat Tale
― NEKOMONOGATARI (BLACK): Cat Tale
“Considering the weight of all she'd overcome in the past few months, I felt pathetic for having just as many experiences, but not overcoming a thing. Right. I haven't overcome a thing.”
― 猫物語 (白) [Nekomonogatari]
― 猫物語 (白) [Nekomonogatari]
“While it may seem uninhibited and respectable to say, "who cares what anyone thinks about me" and "I don't mind what anyone thinks about me," what you're really saying is no different from "I'm going to fool everyone." Especially in this case.”
― 鬼物語 [Onimonogatari]
― 鬼物語 [Onimonogatari]
“Nobody [...] has a perfect personality. Everyone has a good side and a side that's not so good. [...] What's good about Americans, if I can generalize a little, is that they have a kind of openhearted innocence. And what's not so good is that they can't imagine any world outside the States, or any value system different from their own. The Japanese have a similar defect, but Americans are even worse about trying to force others to do whatever they themselves feel to be right.”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup
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Vera’s 2025 Year in Books
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