Status Updates From 花物語 [Hanamonogatari] (Bakem...

All too often a compliment makes someone feel bad, not because they didn't want a pat on the back, they wanted one for something else. But even if our view of ourselves doesn't totally jibe with the other way people see us, that doesn't mean that one or the other is correct. If a false assumption goes unchallenged, does that make it true? The fact is there's no such thing as truth to being with.

I aspired to be a team player, but speaking as an expert team player, I aspired go play like you, taking five opponents all by yourself. To be like you: to act freely, regardless of anyone's opinion undaunted by their stares. Everyone longs for an existence different from their own. We'll even covet unhappiness, if it belongs to someone else.
Now that she was gone I realized I hadn't hated her. I envied her.

"I hate the word 'ass', it's vulgar," I objected. "Half-assed, half-assed... Where does the rest of the ass go?"
"At the rate you are halving it, there won't be any ass left at all..."