Astral Season, Beastly Season Quotes

“When do we first realize that youth is, or was, a season of discrimination?”
― Tahi Saihate, Astral Season, Beastly Season

“There are things you can't look at if you want to keep living. It's only natural that you must avoid those people who try to keep looking directly at the things we must not acknowledge.”
― Tahi Saihate, Astral Season, Beastly Season

“Thinking I'm different was, more than anything else, our greatest commonality.”
― Tahi Saihate, Astral Season, Beastly Season

“But in youth we criticize both ourselves and others in their full humanity. It's only lonely adults that call others less than human.”
― Tahi Saihate, Astral Season, Beastly Season

“All I knew was that no one was right, and no one was wrong, and none of that even mattered.”
― Tahi Saihate, Astral Season, Beastly Season

“It was much later that I noticed a hole had painlessly opened up in the middle of my heart, as though my body were trying to split itself apart.”
― Tahi Saihate, Astral Season, Beastly Season

“Most of the people I met in college take everything seriously and have experienced things like love and friendship as slightly worse versions of what's portrayed in comic books. I describe my past like they do when I talk about it. I never say anything like, "My best friend was killed by one of our classmates." Basically, I try not to ruin the mood.”
― Tahi Saihate, Astral Season, Beastly Season