Red

“Judging by this picture,' I told her, 'I'd say you were the happiest girl in the world.'
She shook her head slowly. Charming lines appeared at the corners of her eyes; she looked as if she were recalling some far-off scene from the past. 'Hajime, you can't tell anything from photographs. They're just a shadow. The real me is far away. That won't show up in a picture.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Perfection is in the mind that makes mistakes”
― Urasawa Naoki

“in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“One thing Yasuko had discovered during her time working as a hostess was that men who were good listeners and truly cared about other people’s problems generally came from happy homes.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X