“the first battle a magical girl must fight is the fight to save herself.”
― A Magical Girl Retires
― A Magical Girl Retires
“A desperate hope would present a magic girl with a path toward awakening her powers. In an act of balance, the universe conferred power on those who had the least, and that was why magical girls existed.”
― A Magical Girl Retires
― A Magical Girl Retires
“When is the proper age to shed the moniker 'girl'? Do you stop being one with your first period? Are you an adult once you grow taller than 160 centimeters? When lots of adults don't reach that height anyway? And is it not true that all of our girlhoods are different, not just in terms of physical growth, but in the growth of our hearts and minds?”
― A Magical Girl Retires
― A Magical Girl Retires
“The reason magical girls exist is because they needed their power the most. In other words, before a magical girl awakens her powers, she’s the weakest person in the world.”
― A Magical Girl Retires
― A Magical Girl Retires
“It was embarrassing, to say the least, that my heart’s truest form was . . . a credit card.”
― A Magical Girl Retires
― A Magical Girl Retires
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