Spiral Quotes

“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“modern science hasn’t managed to come up with answers to any of the most basic questions. How did life first appear on earth? How does evolution work? Is it a series of random events, or does it have a set teleological direction? There are all kinds of theories, but we haven’t been able to prove one of them. The structure of the atom is not a miniature of the solar system, it’s something much more difficult to grasp, full of what you might call latent power. And when we try to observe the subatomic world, we find that the mind of the observer comes into play in subtle ways. The mind, my friend! The very same mind which, ever since Descartes, proponents of the mechanistic view of the universe considered subordinate to the body-machine. And now we find that the mind influences observed results. So I give up. Nothing surprises me. I’m prepared to accept anything that happens in this world. I actually kind of envy people who can still believe in the omnipotence of modern science.”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than “Cheer up!”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“DNA was the chemical material on which hereditary information was recorded, while a gene was one unit of that nearly infinite amount of hereditary information.”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“As long as you lived in the real world, where good and evil coexisted, it was natural to be lost between reason and emotion, ideals and reality,”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Wanting to know more about it stressed him out. If he could get rid of his curiosity, his mind could be at peace.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Recall the Spanish influenza virus, the one that swept the world in 1918. They found the same virus in America in 1977, but nobody died then. The first time around it slaughtered between twenty to forty million people worldwide, and sixty years later, it was basically harmless.”
― Kōji Suzuki, Spiral

“Ring, written with a baby on his lap,”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“From tomorrow onwards, they would awake every morning feeling secure.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“and she fled into a tangerine farm.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Her womb was like an umbilical cord connecting the higher dimension and the lower ones.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“In a dream, you could kill any sort of monster. In the real world, that didn’t happen so easily.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“If the enemy attacked with murderous intent, Takanori’s despair might give him the courage to lash out in self-defense. But it would be too late if he waited for his enemy to act first. Unless he moved preemptively, the likelihood of losing his loved ones would only grow.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Can I really kill somebody with these hands?”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“evanescence.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Oftentimes when he was dreaming, he would notice another part of him whispering, This isn’t real.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“enemy of mankind,”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“It gave off the kind of bewitching aura that could seduce a man—”impish” was the word for it.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“When his left hand touched her hair, Akane smiled faintly and brought her face towards him. She wasn’t awake, merely getting closer to him unconsciously.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“He felt a slight change when she transitioned from being awake and entered into the dream world.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“It’s not so rare for consciousness to produce a physical effect.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Today’s events were merely a prologue compared to the nightmare that was about to unfold—somehow, Takanori understood this.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“If she were still alive, she would be forty-five this year.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Sometimes, roughly once a year, Akane’s mother would appear to her like this as a hallucination that only she could see. But what felt even stranger was that her mother—who had died young—appeared to have aged appropriately in her illusory form.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“none of the tests performed thus far had revealed the true reason Akane had lost consciousness”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“Akane sighed with relief. Having any more blank periods cutting into the film of her life would be unbearable.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es

“My, my, solitaire?” Takanori sat down with his legs crossed, facing his boss. “No, dummy,” replied Yoneda. “Can’t you tell? These’re tarot cards.”
― Kōji Suzuki, S: Es