She couldn’t live in denial of her own humanity.
Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.
I think that once you’re born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can’t spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.
It doesn’t take any effort to dream. It’s a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you’re going to do about them. But all you’re doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn’t make them go away.
I’d rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to die. Nor was it that she wanted to live. She just didn’t want to give up.
There are some things in this world you can never get back... There’s no reclaiming that piece of the past. Don’t you think it’d be better to abandon it completely and consider instead what you did wrong and learn from it?
The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.
What’s the difference in wanting someone you don’t like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don’t exist? They’re just two ways of saying the same thing.
You know, Youko. When you don’t know which choice is the best, then you should choose the path you ought to take, rather than the one you wish for. You’re going to regret the path not taken. But regrets being more or less equal, better the one where the regret is even a bit less.” – Rakushun.