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21 " One girl to send her to the guillotine, one to cut the rope, and one to eagerly await the result. "
― Wataru Watari , やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。4
22 " I couldn't speak. It wasn't because I was frightened. I was entranced, frozen in place by a crisp, terrifyingly icy beauty. Her gorgeousness seemed like a taboo, something forbidden to approach or even speak of, never mind touch. "
23 " Anyway. I think forcing yourself to keep up appearances and putting up this identity that isn't yours, a mask you don't wear when you're alone, is phony. If you have to do all that stuff to get someone to love you, then can you really say they love you and who you really are? Once you change yourself to win affection, to win love, I don't even know if you can still call you you. If you've built your relationship on pretense and lies, it'll probably fail in some way or another, and if you've fundamentally changed yourself, then it's not really you. "
― Wataru Watari , やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。5
24 " In this world, the pursuit of dreams leads to a life so painful and frustrating the mere thought of it is enough to merit a sigh. "
― Wataru Watari , やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 3
25 " Cultivating a proper internal standard of judgment is a good thing. "
26 " What's so praiseworthy about entrusting your sense of what's right to someone else? "
27 " When you tell someone to dress for unhindered movement, going naked seems like the best option to me. "
28 " I don't know what you're expecting, but ultimately, most people in high school have this obsession with the 'high schooler' you often seen in fiction, so they put on an act in an attempt to become that. And it just leaves you cold. "
29 " Monday. Given that it means "day of the moon," you'd think there'd be more butts involved. "
30 " The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in a little diorama. Bully exists in schools because war and conflict exist in the world, and school castes reflect our stratified, hierarchical society. Living in a democracy, the tyranny of the majority naturally applies at school, too. The majority -- that is to say, the people with the most friends -- are superior. "
― Wataru Watari , やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2
31 " I had no trouble with his readiness to change his attitude. I despise the oppression of social hierarchies and seniority-based systems, unless I'm the beneficiary. "
32 " Always been chasing after me, huh? Should I take that to mean Haruno has continually outdone her sister? There was cruelty in that remark, the cruelty of an absolute winner laughing at a foolish challenger, as if she were dealing with a child. "
33 " After all, the entire process of "getting along" is nothing more than a cycle of deception. You're lying to yourself and others. They acknowledge that they're being deceived, and you acknowledge that they're deceiving you [. . .] In the end, it's nothing more than falsehood, suspicion, and deceit. "
34 " There comes a time or two in life when you should face isolation. No, you have to. Constantly being accompanied, having someone by your side always and forever -- that is far more abnormal and creepy. I'm positive you can only learn and feel certain things when you're alone. If there are lessons to gain from having friends, then so also are there lessons from not having friends. These two things are two sides of the same coin and should be treated as equally valuable. So this moment, too, will also have worth for that girl. "
35 " I don't trust any form of kindness so filled with deceit and so delighted in its own self-sacrifice. "
36 " If you want to make friends, you have to be prepared to sacrifice something. "
37 " In other words, paradoxically, loners are the truth philanthropists. Loving nothing is equivalent to loving everything. Damn, it's only a matter of time before they dub me Mother Hikigaya. "
38 " If you're not ready for the consequences, then don't stir up shit in the first place. "
39 " I've stopped bothering getting my hopes up and watching them die when all of it's just in my head. I expect nothing from the start, I expect nothing in the middle, and I expect nothing up until the end. "
40 " Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that; I'd burst into laughter halfway. "