Lonely Castle in the Mirror Quotes

“In another world, we were already friends.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“You're battling every single day, aren't you?”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“If you try hard, you will always see results, and it will never be wasted no matter what you end up doing in life.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“So I am no longer alone. I’ve been hoping something like this will happen for such a long time. Though I know it never will.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We’ll fight this,’ her mother said, her voice trembling. ‘It might be a long battle, but let’s fight it. Let’s do it, Kokoro.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“All we’ll have left are these memories. We won’t be able to help each other.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“The musty smell that hit your nostrils whenever you ventured into the far corner of a tiny bookstore, the place where few people ever went. A smell she loved.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket.

They are all out there somewhere.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“She understood the fear. Not knowing what the future would be for her, not knowing how long she’d be like this. Seeing people who were moving on was enough to make her feel an excruciating pain in her chest.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“A hypothetical reality seemed preferable to present reality, and the more she fantasized about how great it would if certain things could come true, the more reality that world seemed to take on.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“What made her happiest, and most relieved, was if they all left her alone.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“She thought if she’d said she liked reading, the others would label her an introvert, so when several girls ahead of her said they liked karaoke, she copied them.”
― Philip Gabriel, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We should have had a real heart-to-heart, she thought. We shouldn’t have parted like that, after arguing.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Only with kids who had gone through similar experiences could she really open up about what had happened, and how it made her feel. And now she’d gone and closed the door on that opportunity, and it was painful.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“I sometimes find myself dreaming.
A new transfer student has started at our school, and everyone wants to be friends with them. The most cheerful, kind and athletic person in our class. And smart, too.
Out of all my classmates this new student picks me out with a generous smile, as dazzling as the sun, and says, ‘Kokoro-chan, it’s been such a long time.’
The other students can’t believe it. ‘What?’ they say, looking at me meaningfully. ‘Do you two already know each other?’
In another world, we were already friends.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Because she sometimes had a dream.
A dream of a transfer student arriving.
And among all her many classmates he noticed her, and a smile as dazzling as the sun spread over his face. He said, ‘Good morning.’ And he smiled.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“The embroidered name tag said Mizumori.
I feel as if – I know his name, Kokoro thought. Her eyes widened.
Because she sometimes had a dream.
A dream of a transfer student arriving.
And among all her many classmates he noticed her, and a smile as dazzling as the sun spread over his face. He said, ‘Good morning.’ And he smiled.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“Teach her a lesson.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We are all kids going to the same junior high”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“We are all kids going to the same junior nigh.,”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror