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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.

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.

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

I had the sense that these locked rooms were more than just a place to hold us. I thought they must be something more important, locking up our very lives and souls, isolating us, stripping even the light from us. This was a prison of the soul. This room had taught me a true loneliness of a kind I had never seen or experienced before, and the meaninglessness of a life without a future.

I'm not gonna die alone, no way! He will never allow it!

I thought about my death. It was not just a matter of stopping. It would be a parting from all there was in this world, even a parting from myself. And this would still be true no matter how much I loved something. This is what made death so terribly sad.

I want to have her hands..! Morino's hands...

Morino: What does the kidnapper do with those things? Yuka: Those things? Morino: You know, the stinky things with four legs that make a lot of noise. Did she mean the dogs?

My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss.

There are people who kill, and people who get killed.

What I saw there was my own death.