Shiki

“I love him, no more and no less... I couldn't help but just love him with my entire being. All that is left is regret, nostalgia, and an insuppressible love that still persists to this day...”
― Shungiku Nakamura, 中村 春菊

“No matter how ridiculous it is, its good to express your emotions while you are young. If not, you end up reaching your limit. We accumulate small and trivial experiences in life. But for those who can't treat their experiences as food to growth, they will reach the point of refusing to associate with other people with one line "I'm not to blame.”
― Hinowa Kouzuki, 妖怪アパートの幽雅な日常 3

“If you keep lamenting your misfortune, you will never be happy, since you see the world through misfortune-tinted glasses. Everything and everyone looks wrong to you. Those who live under 'normal' circumstances look far more fortunate than you are, and seemingly look down on you. These people who feel they are unfortunate reject others, unless they are regarded to have a similar fate. Some of these people are able to abandon this attitude as they realize they are not the only unfortunate people in the world. However some of them gather in groups, lament even further and thus drown more deeply into misfortune.”
― Hinowa Kouzuki, 妖怪アパートの幽雅な日常 8

“Of all the things that human beings do, do you know which one is tine most brazenly despicable? It's when people who have authority—and the people who flatter them-hide in safe places singing the praises of war; push a patriotic, sacrificial mind-set on the people; and then send them a to the battlefield. If peace is ever going to come to this galaxy, we should eradicate malignant parasites like those first instead of perpetuating this pointless war with the empire.”
― 田中芳樹, 銀河英雄伝説 1 [Ginga Eiyū Densetsu 1]