“What's really important isn't whether you can win fights. It's not losing against yourself.”
― Tokyo Revengers, Vol. 13
― Tokyo Revengers, Vol. 13
“I wish that one day someone will love me. Someone will look me in the eyes without fear or pity. Someone will take away the loneliness etched in my heart so that I will know what it’s like to be loved. So I can laugh without tasting the bitterness on my tongue once the sound fades.”
― Her Radiant Curse
― Her Radiant Curse
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
― Lies and Weddings
― Lies and Weddings
“So Plato talked about these beings that used to exist that had four legs and four arms and two heads. They were totally self-contained and ecstatic and powerful. Too powerful, so Zeus cut them all in half and scattered all the halves around the world so that humans were doomed to forever look for their other half, the one who shared their very soul. Only the luckiest humans find their split-apart, you see.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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