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“Why did you do that? You just risked death to kiss me.”

“Sora, I’d die a hundred times to kiss your lips.”

“You are made of steel. But you are so much more.”

"Because I'd know you in this life and the next hundred."

"I've loved you since I first saw you, Sora. When you were only nine but you faced armed men with your chin up and tried to hide Daysum behind you. I fell for your beauty, of course-I'm human-but it was your spirit that did me in. Your capacity to love is deeper than the West Sea. You're honest. You're true. You are everything."

“A taste of death makes us savor our mortality.”

“And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all.”