Mohamed Ashraf

“Trying to not hurt others is something you can't do. People are creatures who hurt others just by existing even if they're not aware of it. Whether you're living or dying. you'll always be hurting someone. Once you're involved, you'll hurt someone, and even by not being involved, you might be hurting someone else as well...”
― Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。9

“To say ‘if you say it, then you’ll understand’ is being arrogant. It’s the self-satisfaction of the person in question who said it, the conceit of the one who was told it… There’s a lot going on and it’s not always the case that you’d understand each other from talking it over. That’s why words aren’t what I want.”
― Wataru Watari

“Even if you said something, there would still be things untold, and there were things that would break just from saying it.”
― Wataru Watari

“The bonds between people had to be a narcotic. You unwittingly became dependent all the while your heart deteriorates inside out. And then you ended up needing to rely on others and you eventually become unable to do things by yourself.
Then, was it possible that by intending to lend a hand to people that I was actually making them suffer instead? Was I giving birth to people who couldn’t stand on their own two feet unless they had help from someone?
Even though we were supposed to teach them how to catch fish and not give them one.
Something that could be easily given to someone was surely a fake. Something that could easily be given away was surely something that could easily be taken away by someone.”
― Wataru Watari