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" I like myself.
Not once did I ever hate myself.
My basic, but high specs; my decent face; and my pessimistic, but realistic thinking; I didn’t hate any single one of them.
But now, for the first time, I was on the verge of hating myself.
I arbitrarily placed my expectations on her, I arbitrarily forced my ideals on her, I arbitrarily acted as if I understood her, and I arbitrarily disappointed myself. Over and over again, I’d warn myself, yet I just wouldn’t learn.
——Even Yukinoshita Yukino tells lies.
For not being able to acknowledge something so obvious, I hate myself. "
― Wataru Watari , やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。5