Crystal

“And thus as one storm begins to ravage the Virginias, another one just as easily dissipates and vanishes in a flood of bad jokes and old stories.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The whole damn school…
Every last student…
They deify you too much...

But they’ve closed off every road except athletics, so you don’t see anything else.
You don’t have a clue what’s going on.

You have like, two…
Maybe three facial expressions, tops…
But every flaw and failings in the book.

Your parents…
The people around you…
Everyone else in the world…
They might expect big things of you…

But not me.

I’ll make fun of you, smirk to myself…
And you treat you like anyone else.

Who gives a shit whether you succeed in athletics or quit?
What difference does it make?

Someone has to make you understand that you’re just like everyone else…
And I’m that someone.”
― Gaku Kuze, うらみちお兄さん 5

“Empty.
I say, quietly.
And yet, already, something has begun to fill the emptiness.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Manazuru