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1 " Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world. "
― Otsuichi , Zoo
2 " The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. "
― Otsuichi , ZOO〈２〉
3 " Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job. "
― Otsuichi , Goth
4 " I want to have her hands..!Morino's hands... "
5 " There are people who kill, and people who get killed. "
6 " What I saw there was my own death. "
7 " I'm not gonna die alone, no way! He will never allow it! "
8 " My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment. "
9 " I've always loved fixing broken things.If something fixed by myself caused a smile, I'd feel saved. In that case it would be worth it. And I was delighted. "
― Otsuichi , きみにしか聞こえない [Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai]
10 " By understanding the value system the world preferred, remembering and feigning it, I was able to convince others that I was free of problems. I simply had to participate enthusiastically in the boring conversations my classmates were having. "
11 " But when emotions get strong, humans have to do something. Some people encase their emotions by playing or exercising, whereas others calm their emotions by breaking things. People in the latter group could let their feelings out just by breaking furniture or the like. But Morino was unable to direct those feelings outward, so she'd directed them at herself. "
12 " What does the kidnapper do with those things?""Those things?""You know, the stinky things with four legs that make a lot of noise."Did she mean the dogs? "
13 " The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing. "
14 " Her lack of outward expression was similar to the way a thermos is never hot on the outside: No matter what was going on inside, it never affected the surface. "
15 " There are two kinds of humans: those who kill and those who are killed. "
16 " Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing "
17 " When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater "
― Otsuichi
18 " Things that were merciless and cruel always captivated me. The conversations my classmates enjoyed and the warm words I exchanged with my family never really resonated with me. They were just static, like a radio that wasn't tuned properly. "
19 " I couldn't believe that the conversations my family had or the friendly attitudes of the people I knew were genuine. I was certain there had to be a script somewhere – and once, when I was very young, I searched the house for it. I wanted to read the same words everyone else was saying. But there was no script. The only thing that ever felt real to me was death. "
20 " God cannot be drawn or sculpted. The moment it is drawn, it is no longer God; the moment it is sculpted, God becomes a fake. The moment it is expressed, its divinity peels away and recedes from its true nature. "
