Ruth

“Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My oshi's was blue, so I systematically surrounded myself with everything blue. Just being in a blue space made me feel calm.”
― Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

“Perhaps you're right, but everything I've learned is precious to me. No one can take my skills away–I value them with my life. Some may say that my knowledge is worthless, but it makes no difference to me." She turned from the balcony, fixing him with a piercing gaze. "I'm the one who decides what I value.”
― Touko Amekawa, 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Vol. 1

“I like you, too!" she blubbered at the top of her voice. "I do, I do. You're a lovely Goon. You're my favourite Goon in all the world!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Archer's Goon

“As long as you kept running from birth until death, falling down, getting hurt, no matter how many times you suffered defeat, you got up and started running again. Personal happiness came from all the things and people you came across, ran into by chance along the way. Climber's high. Climbing with all your might, concentrating completely on moving up, never being distracted by the meaningless stuff around you.”
― Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen