"And the magic will end when you truly forget it"

"In my experience, true love is usually the most inconvenient kind"

"For a storm is certainly coming, whether by my hand or someone else's. And I have no idea who will survive to see the dawn"

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good"

"But first...(...) Why lie?"

"You should have a dog, love. I've heard that they have the same qualities"

"Better in black than the widows of our enemies since 1234"

"Nameless is my price"

“I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me”

"At least you don't have a letter in yours. She must think you won't forget your name. But we're not stupid, we know that we're called Feorge and Gred"

 "There's no big secret. You support what's unbearable, and follow. Only that"

"The handsome young man who's trying to save her from a horrible fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs"

"The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple"

"Could a dead heart, frozen, be broken? It seemed that mine could"

"After all, in how many ways can a heart be torn apart and keep beating?"

"Tired not only to live, but to exist. Tired of being who he is"

"I trust you, that's what I mean. But that's not true, I don't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I've done. I don't trust anyone to do this"

"He is wrong he is very wrong he is more wrong than a rainbow upside down. But everything he said is right"

"Hell is empty. And all the demons are here"

"The truth is a painful reminder of why I'd rather live among lies"

"Predestined to meet, doomed to get lost ..."

"If no one in the whole world cares about you, do you really exist?"

 "Maybe I've always been more comfortable in chaos"

"My heart's already breaking, baby, go on, twist the knife"

"If tomorrow you won't be mine, won't you give it to me one last time?"

 "At least I'm honest about being a liar"

 "You have no choice. You must enter your past to fix your present. If you don't, you'll have no future"

"If you're half as funny as I thought you were, kid, you'll have to be twice as funny as you are"

 "Unfortunately, my only true love remains for me.
— At least, you don't have to worry about rejection.
— Not necessarily. I give up occasionally, just to keep it interesting"

"Idiots. Yay! Donuts"

"And then I left. To kill the man I loved"

"A look is worth a thousand words. A smile is worth more than a million"

"Baby anyhow I'll get another toy"

 "Let's rattle the stars"

"We loved with a love that was more than love"

"I'm the ghost of a girl that I want to be most, I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well. Dancing slowly in an empty room, Can the lonely take the place of you? I sing myself a quiet lullaby, Let you go and let the lonely in. To take my heart again"

"You promised me you'd be around, That's right, I took your words, And I believed, In everything, You said to me, That's right, If someone said three years from now, You'd be long gone, I'd stand up and punch them out, 'Cause they're all wrong, I know better, 'Cause you said forever, And ever, Who knew, I wish I could touch you again, I wish I could still call you friend, I'd give anything, When someone said count your blessings now, For they're long gone, I guess I just didn't know how, I was all wrong, They knew better, Still you said forever, And ever, Who knew"

"In essence, love is selfish"

"Do you remember what I told you the other day in the study hall? I want you to be happy, just like him. And yet when you walk the room to meet him and join him forever, you'll make a way over unseen shards in my heart. I'd give my own life for any of you. I'd give my life for your happiness. When you said you didn't love me, I thought maybe my feelings would slow down and end, but they haven't. They've grown every day. At this moment, I love you more desperately than I've ever loved before, and in an hour I'll love you more than that. It's unfair to tell, I know, when you can't do anything about it... How you should despise me.
She felt as if the floor had disappeared beneath her feet. She remembered what she had thought the night before: surely his feelings for her were gone. Over the years, his pain would be less than hers. She had believed it. But now...
— I don't despise you. You've been nothing more than honourable ... more honourable than I could ever have asked you to be ...
— No, you don't expect anything from me, I suppose.
— I expected everything from you! More than you ever expected of yourself. But you've given more than that - they say you can't divide your heart, and yet ..."

"He was the fire, and I was flammable"

"Take care of yourself before you detonate yourself"

"I'd die for you, That's easy to say, We have a list of people that we would take, A bullet for them, A bullet for you, A bullet for everybody in this room, But I don't seem to see many bullets coming through, See many bullets coming through, Metaphorically I'm the man, But literally I don't know what I'd do, I'd live for you, And that's hard to do, Even harder to say, When you know it's not true, Even harder to write, When you know that tonight, There were people back home who tried talking to you, But then you ignore them still, All these questions they’re for real, Like who would you live for? Who would you die for? And would you ever kill?"

"If it's too late, we'll enjoy the dawn"

"Uma das coisas mais cruéis que você pode fazer para uma pessoa é fazê-la se sentir em casa quando, para você, ela é apenas temporária. Se você não pode dar-lhe todo o seu coração, então não se atreva a fazê-la de refém"

"Abraços não são casa, mas eu morreria tranquilamente dentro do seu"

"You are the right person, in the wrong distance"

"Você me teve nas suas mão, mas preferiu me deixar escapar. Você  me tinha tanto, que quando escolheu me perder, eu obedeci"

"Às vezes, é difícil expressar o que se está sentindo. Por mais que eu tente, sempre fica uma coisinha por dizer ou algo que não foi dito exatamente com deveria. E talvez essa seja uma das coisas que mais me afetem"

"Não se esforce demais para permanecer na vida de alguém. Quem te quer dá a chave da casa, abre a porta e ainda faz café"

"Eu fiz minha parte, mas não dependia só de mim"

"Você percebe que amadureceu quando começa a valorizar quem nunca desistiu de você"

"Eu sempre acreditei que a pior saudade, não é aquela que a pessoa tá longe demais, mas sim, aquela que a pessoa tá do seu lado mas parece que tá a quilômetros de distância de você. Eu sinto saudades de como você era comigo"

"Ame a pessoa que te viu quando você se sentia invisível"

"Talvez esse mundo seja o inferno de outro planeta"

 "O fato de o mar estar calmo na superfície não significa que algo não esteja acontecendo nas profundezas"

"My mind is my prison, but it's also the key to my freedom"

"Se você ficar, farei tudo o que você quiser. Abandono a banda, vou com você para Nova York. Mas, se precisar que eu vá embora, faço isso também. Talvez voltar para sua velha vida seja doloroso demais, talvez seja mais fácil para você nos apagar. E isso seria uma droga, mas eu faria. Posso perder você assim se não te perder hoje. Vou te deixar ir. Se ficar"

"O diabo sussurrou no meu ouvido: "você não é forte o suficiente para aguentar a tempestade". Eu sussurrei no ouvido dele: "eu sou a tempestade"

"Se eu tenho que me desfazer para te agradar, não é a mim que você ama - se me desfaço já não existo mais"

"I love you, you know. With everything in my heart. Just like that. Simple as that. I love you. Don't you know that? Cause it's true. The purest true you'll ever hear. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you. I simply just love you. I just don't wanna lose you. I want u to not wanna lose me. It it's hopeless. I don't even know how you feel. I'm tired of running and waiting for u. I'll always be here for you. But u might lose me. We're gone"

"Não me ames a mais, não me liberte, A chave não é sua, não gire a maçaneta, Estás preparado para o outro lado?, Não espie pelo buraco, Por o buraco tem olhos, que cobiçam suas entranhas, E quanto mais os encarar, mais os vai amá-los e ansiar também"

"Se eu tivesse dez segundos pra dizer o que eu sinto por você, E dez minutos pra fazer você ficar, Diria que dez anos são pouco pra te ter, Que eu queria ter dez vidas pra dez vezes eu te amar (...) Mas a gente é melhor, a gente vai pro infinito"

"Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons"

"To the people who look at the stars and wish. —To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered."

"No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material"

"We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most"

"You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love"

"When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back"

"I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would not be weak, or helpless again. I would not, could not be broken. Tamed"

"There are different kinds of darkness. There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good"

"And I realised—I realizsed how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right"

"She went down first. Then she. And she, her wyvern swarmed by their enemy. Then she and she, together, as they had always been. Then the green-eyed demon twins, laughing as they went. Then the Shadows, she and she, arrows still firing. Still finding their marks. Then she, roaring her defiance to the skies. And then she. She, who held the way open for her, a solid wall for her Second as she soared in. A wall against whom the waves of them broke and broke. The young witch inside the tower began glowing black, steps from the pit. Beside her, they wrapped their arms around each other. Ready for the end heartbeats away. And then she was there. She was barreling toward that open stretch of air, for the tower itself, bought with the lives of the Thirteen. With their final stand. She could only watch, watch and watch and watch, shaking her head as if she could undo it, as she removed her leathers, the shirt beneath. As she rose in the saddle, freed of the buckles, a dagger in hand as her wyvern aimed straight for the tower. (...) But she was already leaping. Already arching through the air, swords raised, wyvern tumbling away beneath, her body broken on impact. She began screaming then. Screaming, endless and wordless, as that thing in her chest, as her heart, shattered. As she landed in the witch tower’s open archway, swords swinging at the witches who rushed to kill her. They might as well have been blades of grass. Might as well have been mist, for how easily she cut them down, one after another, driving forward, toward the Matron who had branded the letters on stark display across her abdomen. UNCLEAN. (...) And it was not darkness, but light—light, bright and pure as the sun on snow, that erupted from her. Light, as she made the Yielding. As the Thirteen, their broken bodies scattered around the tower in a nearcircle, made the Yielding as well. Light. They all burned with it. Radiated it. Light that flowed from their souls, their fierce hearts as they gave themselves over to that power. Became incandescent with it. (...) As she and the Thirteen Yielded completely, and blew themselves and the witch tower to smithereens"

"Even if you’re not perfect you’re limited edition"

"Why is there no opposite word of loneliness? Could it be because people, until they die, have no moments of not being lonely?"

"In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future"

"Once this era ends, I would like it if each and every one of you [...] could be yourselves too. Please know this. Thanks to you all, I have been able to live until now. Please believe me. In the future, too, I hope that even one word of ours, (...) could be a help for you to love yourselves. In the future, too, (...) let's try to enjoy ourselves together. It'd be good if there was a better word than 'love', but truly, I love you. Please know that"

"You know what? I’m happy. I’m so happy. I’m literally so happy. I have no religion but I thank God that we’re living in 2020. I thank God that we have this technology so that we can be connected with no latency, see each other’s faces like it literally feels like you’re here and I hope you guys feel the same way too… I thank God that we can do this, at least we can do this. At this kind of stage it is no one’s fault. It’s not your fault, it’s not my fault, not our fault. It’s not anyone’s fault. And we’re people. We’re humans. We’re just doing our best. We’re just doing our best… We’re just doing what we can do. And you know, we have those years.(...) We’ve been to everywhere and saw our faces, we felt our energy, we charged each other’s batteries, we literally did all those kinds of things… I believe in those years and that time. The belief and energy that we built together will never betray us. So I’m happy. I hope you could smile and feel the same and vibe. I hope you’re happy. Stay safe. Thank you very much. I love you"

"We are literally strong.(...) We’re all strong. We’ll find a way. If there’s no way, let’s draw the map—the whole map again. So let’s not just doubt ourselves. Let’s believe in ourselves. And, I love you so much. Truly. All of you can know that. I love you"

"(...) I looked up but couldn’t see the stars at night.(...) One night we were working together. He said he couldn’t see the stars any more, but I saw my face reflected in the window. I saw all of our faces.(...) When I start feeling lost, I remember my face in the window.(...) Now more than ever, we must try to remember who we are, and face who we are. We must try to love ourselves, and imagine the future.(...) Our tomorrow may be dark, painful, difficult. We might stumble or fall down. Stars shine brightest when the night is darkest. If the stars are hidden, we’ll let moonlight guide us. If even the moon is dark, let our faces be the light that helps us find our way. It might feel like it’s always night and we’ll always be alone, But the night is always darkest before the first light of dawn. Life goes on. Let's live on"

"It's alright if you started from right now. It's alright if you're in a good mood. It's alright if you do everything you want to do. It's alright if you miss them. Just be happy"

"Even if I am a little hurt, it's okay"

"Now promise me, Several times a day, Though you feel alone, Don't throw yourself away"

"I was born suddenly in order to meet you all. So please love me a lot"

"In the middle of the road, in the moment you want to give up, shout out even louder: “So what?"

"Don’t be trapped in someone else’s dream"

"Your presence can give happiness. I hope you remember that"

"I finally realised, so I love me. Not so perfect but so beautiful. Why did I want to hide my precious self? What made me so afraid that I hid my true self? Perhaps people might not see my shy sparkle, But I’m me just as I am, My arms, legs, heart, and soul that I have lived with until now, I want to love in this world, The shining me, the precious soul of mine, I realize only now, so I love me, I'm the one I should love"

"Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy"

"It really feels like I'm in a different world, so I think I'm really, truly happy. So the thing I want to say to you all is thank you for making this other world of you for us. And lastly, the thought that I had the most(..) was that the words that I, we, heard most from you guys were "it's okay, I love you". But I think the words that we have to be saying to you the most are "it's okay, I love you". I wanted to tell you that no matter what happens, it's okay. No matter what happens, I love you. I love you. Thank you"

"The volume of you took a space in my heart, and it grew more and more. So now, I don’t think I can live without you. I think I will think of you even more. So hopefully you guys, no matter what happens, stay with us seven and be together with us"

"Don’t try to fade away, Will you promise me, If I touch, you might fly away, you might be shattered, You shine in this pitch darkness that is the butterfly effect"

"Wherever you’re standing right now, you’re just taking a short break"

"If you can’t return, go straight through your mistakes and forget them all, Never mind, It's not easy but engrave it onto your chest, If you feel like you're going to crash then accelerate more, you idiot"

"I’m sorry (I hate you), I love you (I hate you), Forgive me (Shit), It might be because the sky is so blue and the sun is so bright, that my tears are more clearly seen, Please rather say goodbye to me, Please say that the love wasn’t love, I don’t have the courage to do so, Give me the last gift, So that I can’t go back anymore"

"Just burn me off, yeah, push me further, Loving you is the only thing I can do, Again, run, it’s okay even if I fall, It’s okay even if I get hurt a bit, It’s okay even if I don’t have you, Whether it’s sweat or tears, I can’t tell anymore, Even my love stripped naked and even the severe wind storm, Only make me run more with my heart beating"

 "Kiss me It’s okay even if it hurts, just tighten me quick, So that I won’t be able to feel the pain anymore"

"Though you might not know, you've got the best of me. So please just don't leave me. Though even I haven’t seen the end of me, it it exists, wouldn’t it be you? I wanted to be gentle waves, but why didn’t I know that you are the sea? What would I do when I’m already speaking in your language and breathing your breath? I’ll be you, you who’s holding me. I kiss your sword. Just have confidence in me, because that’s all I have wished for. Though there’s no rule for us, there’s a way to love. No ones knows but I know me"

"Is it that I learned after meeting you that I’m a book, or is it that you turned my page? Maybe I’m your truth and lie, maybe your love and hatred, maybe I’m your enemy and friend, your heaven and hell, sometimes pride and embarrassment"

"I grew a flower that can’t be bloomed in a dream that can’t come true"

"Let’s not read each other’s face trying to figure out who’s going to get off or not, Let’s not drag it on and do as we please, Let’s now make the decision whether to get off or not, A repetitive seesaw game, Now, stop, If we didn’t have feelings for each other, if we didn’t think of each other, would we have dragged it on like this?"

"Those countless cries of lies can separate us, It’s true, We have to trust only each other, We can’t let go of our two hands. If you push me, I will fall, you raise me up then yeah, Even if I pull you, you don’t have to come to me. Can’t you hear me, you have to trust me, Remember, sometimes lies try to separate us, Trials try to deceive us, but, in times like that, focus on me, In the darkness, as long as there are us, it’s enough, In the meaningless lies, as long as we are together, even the endless maze is a paradise, the two hands holding each other become the map"

"Back then I didn’t know the meaning of you, back then it felt nice just looking at you. I remember the time, around my grade-school days, when I became taller than you, I neglected you who I had adored so much. The image of you being abandoned with dust piling on your once-shiny keys. I still didn’t know the meaning of you, because you were keeping your place wherever I was. But I didn’t know that it’d be the last. “Don’t go away like this,” you say, “Don’t worry even if I leave, because you’ll do well on your own. I remember when I first met you, without my noticing, you grew up so much. Although we’re putting an end to our relationship, don’t ever feel sorry for me. You’ll see me again in any form. Greet me again then”. I remember the time when I faced you again who I had completely forgotten, when I was about 14. The moment of awkwardness was short, and I again caressed you. I had been gone for a long time, but you still accepted me with no repulsion. Don’t let go of my hand forever, because I won’t let go of you either. I remember the time, you lived through my late teens with me desperately and passionately. Yeah, we couldn’t see an inch before us, we cried and we laughed. Even those moments can stay as memories because I was with you. Grabbing my crushed shoulder, I said that I really couldn’t do it anymore. Every time that I wanted to give up, you told me, by my side, “kid, you really can do it”. Yeah, yeah, I remember the time, when I was exhausted, strayed, and drowned in a pit of despair. Even though I pushed you away and hated meeting you, you were always by my side even when I didn’t ask. So don’t ever let go of my hand, because I’m not letting go of you ever again. Because, my beginning and my end, you are the one who’s going to witness it all"

"It’s not that I’m believing in it, I’m just trying to endure it, because this is all that I can do, I want to stay, I want to dream more. It’s my truth, I’d be covered in cuts and bruises, But it’s my fate, But I still want to struggle, Maybe I, I can’t touch the sky, But I still want to reach my hand, I want to try running, just a little more"

"I try to wrap it, but I don’t have a voice, A crack on this frozen lake, yet again, You know I threw myself in that lake, You know I buried my voice for you, On the winter lake I threw myself in, a thick ice has formed, Have I lost myself, or have I gained you? Tell me, if my voice is fake, should I have not thrown myself away, Tell me, if even the pain is fake, what should I have done then"

"Believe that our hearts will stay together, beyond the wind that delivers this message, I will always be here under the same sky"

"Even if you pass through me and turn into water, you still flow in my heart"

"From all the memories stored in my heart, I gather up the ones of you, link them together, Gazing at them projected across the room, I feel you with every burst of pain, Decay too far gone absorbing no light or water, Sealing my wounded heart with a rootless, leafless vow, Two glasses placed side by side, their role never fulfilled, The words you whisper, the resonance, Wander aimlessly around the room, The fragrance I smell, the warmth I feel, As long as it lasts, as long as it lasts"

"As I empty my glass, it gets filled up with my longing for you, All I did was to just paint you over my white canvas, As I come to my senses, I realize it’s already a beautiful drawing, Hold me tightly into your arms, Hold me tight, Hug me, Can you trust me? Hold me tightly into your arms so that I can feel you, I can’t breathe without you, I’m nothing without you"

"Because those precarious dead leaves over there look like us, Because they look like they’ll crumble at any slightest touch, I can see our relationship only being withered away, Our relationship that is empty like the autumn sky, One dry leaf hanging on the branch, is breaking, I can see the thing called “the end”, Please don’t fall, You’re my fifth season– though I try to see you, I can’t see you, Look, for me you’re still coloured in green, Only the crimson-coloured memories fall on my dirty self, Though I don’t shake my branches, they fall on their own, Yeah, my love falls in order to rise, But everything withered away, the dead leaves fall like tears, the wind blows, and everything gets distant all day, The rain pours and shatters, even the last leaf — you you you"

"I open my eyes under the cold blue sky, The sun spilling onto me makes me dizzy, All out of breath, my heart is racing, I can feel it, so easily, the fact that I’m alive. It’s okay even if it’s not us, Even if I’m helplessly crumpled, And my wings are torn apart, And I become someone that is not me, It’s okay– only I am my own salvation, Though my cold heart has forgotten how to call you, I’m not lonely– it’s okay, it’s okay"

"Louder than bombs I break. Louder than bombs I say. Louder than bombs I sing"

"We’re each other’s mystery, Would it be why it’s more special, Someday, when these cheers die down, stay, Stay with me by my side, Forever, keep staying here"

"You make I to an O, I to an O, I learned thanks to you, why person [saram] and love [sarang] sound similar, You make live to a love, I learned thanks to you why a person should live by loving, Though the distance between I and U is long, F*** JKLMNO PQRST, I crossed all the letters and reached you, Look, mine [nae] and yours [ne] also sound the same, Though that doesn’t make me you, I’d like to be a part of your book"

"Whatever I believed, wherever I went, became my fate and became my core, Whether or not I was exhausted or whether or not I was sad, (only ego, ego, ego), it became my comfort, and help me know myself, Map of the Soul, Map of the All, That’s my ego, That’s my ego"

"I miss you, Saying this out loud makes me miss you more, I hate us– us who now became to find it difficult to see each other even for once, How much longings must fall like snow, before that spring day arrives? How much longer should I wait and how many sleepless nights should I spend before I get to see you, before I get to meet you? Past the edge of cold winter, until the spring day comes again, until the flowers bloom, please stay there a while longer, Please stay. Would it be that you’ve changed or I’ve changed? I hate even the time that is passing right now, I guess it’s us that have changed, I guess everyone has changed, Yeah, I hate you, Though you left, even for a day, I haven’t forgotten you, To be honest, I miss you,but I’ll erase you now, Because doing so hurts me less than resenting you. I try blowing out you who aches my heart like smoke, like white smoke, Though I say that I’ll erase you, I can’t actually let you go yet.  The morning will come again, Because no darkness or no season can last forever, It seems like the cherry blossoms are blooming, This winter is also coming to its end, I miss you, If you wait a little bit, if you spend just a few sleepless nights, I’ll come to meet you, I’ll come to pick you up, Please stay"

"All I can give you is myself, and a word ‘you’ve worked hard,’ but I’ll fly to you right away if you call me, Please call me. To be honest, I’m scared of falling and of turning you down, But, even if it takes up all my strength, I will be sure that I stay by your side"

"What did I say, I told you that we’d win, This miracle that isn’t a miracle, did we make it? I do believe your galaxy, I want to listen to your melody, how the stars of your galaxy will embroider your sky, At the end of my despair, I found you at last, don’t forget, You’re the last reason for me who was standing on the edge of cliff, Live. "On a day I hate being myself, on a day I want to disappear forever", let’s build a door in your mind, Once you open the door and enter, this place will wait for you, It’s okay to believe Magic Shop that will comfort you. Like roses when blooming, Like cherry blossoms when fluttering, Like morning glories when fading, Like that beautiful moment. But then, looking back, actually, I feel like it’s not that I wanted to become the best, I wanted to comfort and move your heart, Would you believe if I told you that I, too, was afraid of everything- all the true hearts and all the remaining time. All your answers are in this place where you found, in your galaxy, in your mind. You gave me the best of me, So you’ll give you the best of you, You found me, You recognized me. You’ll find the galaxy inside you. So show me (I’ll show you)"

"Life is long, do it slowly, At the end, it’s full of the paradise of dream. But the real world is different from the promise, We have to run, we have to step on the accelerator, when the flare gun launches a signal, You don’t even have a destination, and there’s not even a scenery, When you are so out of breath, "You need to, you need to". There’s no need to run without knowing the reason, It’s okay not to have a dream as long as there are your moments to briefly feel happiness, It’s okay to pause, We now don’t run without knowing the purpose, It’s okay not to have a dream, Every breath you exhale is already in the paradise. We dream through others (like debt), We learn that we have to become great (like light), Your dream, actually a burden, It’s okay to have different names to your dream, Dream doesn’t need to be anything grand, You can just become anyone, We deserve a life, Whether it’s big or small, you’re still just you. I don’t have a dream, Just to live like this and to survive like this, that’s a small dream for me, Saying ‘some are living like this, some are living like that,’, the world pours curses on me, Yeah The world has no right to curse at me, It never has even taught me how to dream. Stop runnin’ for nothin’ my friend, Now stop the stupid race, Every breath you exhale is already in the paradise. You don’t have to have a dream that anybody dreams, All languages that make you are already in the paradise"

"Perhaps, than loving someone else, it is more difficult to love myself, Let’s be honest and admit what we have to admit, that your standards are more strict when they are applied to you, The wide growth ring in your life, That is also a part of you, that is also you. So let’s forgive yourself now, Our life is too long to be given up. Did I fall to be showered by those countless stars? I’m the only target aimed by those thousands of glittering arrows. I answer with all my breath and all the path I’ve walked along. Perhaps there might not be the answer. Perhaps this might not be an answer. Even just to love myself, I needed to have someone else’s permission. I’m still looking for myself again, But I don’t want to die anymore. Me, who was sad, Me, who was hurt, Me, who will be more beautiful. Yeah, knowing the presence of such beauty is the most necessary thing that is most like me. The move that has to be made for me now is the action that is for me, is the attitude that is for me. That is the happiness for me, I’ll show you what I got. I’m not afraid because that is my own existence, Love myself. From the start of the beginning and until the finish of the ending, there is only one answer. Why do you keep trying to hide under your mask, when even the scars made by your own mistake mark your constellations?"

"Some lights are ambition, Some lights are wanderings. Lights of people, Each one of them is precious. In a dark night, (don’t feel alone), Like stars, (we shine). Don’t disappear because you are one great existence. Perhaps the reason that the face of this night is so beautiful, Is not because of those stars nor those lights, But because of us. Within the pitch darkness of the night, The lights that each of us saw from the other, Were all saying the same thing. We are the starlight that shines brighter on the darkest nights, The starlight that shines brighter the deeper the night turns. In one person, there is one history, In one person, there is one star, Shining with 7 billion lights, 7 billion worlds. You shine brighter than anyone. Seeing you, I breathe. Shine dream smile, Oh let us light up the night, We shine in our own way, We shine just for who we are, tonight"

"Suddenly, I think if you would actually know yourself, if you would know how pretty your existence is"

"Re-spect, like the word itself, it’s to look and look again, When you keep looking at someone, you’re bound to see their flaws, But the fact that you nonetheless want to keep looking"

"Everyone has lots of diseases, What confuses me is that human nature is evil and ugly, There are more than 400 different diseases of the mind out there, There shouldn’t be that many who don’t fit into any of those, Is it the world or me who’s diseased, Would it be simply the difference in interpretations? Would that be all? I don’t know that is it is faster to change someone — than it is for me to change"

"A big system that’s called the world, They insert conflicts, wars, or survivals, Life you can’t reject, Capital injects morphine called hope with dream as collateral. Wealth creates wealth and tests our greed, The rich get greedy even for poverty, covetously. Polarization, the ugliest flower in the world. The one who isn’t sick in the world that is sick gets treated as a mutant, isn’t it strange? The one who has his eyes open in the world that has its eyes closed — now they make him blind, isn’t it strange?"

"Everyone would live on, Everyone would love, Everyone would fade away, and be forgotten. People change — like I have, Living a life in the world, there’s nothing that lasts forever, Everything is just a happening that passes by. What about it? If you brush past, what about it? If you get hurt, what about it? If you live like that, what about it? A special life, an ordinary life, each of them on their own, It’s all good. When it’s not there, you wish it is, when it’s there, you wish it’s not, Who said that humans are the animals of wisdom? To my eyes, it’s obvious that they are the animals of regret. My being ordinary is rather your being special, My being special is rather your being ordinary. Everything is just a happening that passes by"

"Whether it would become a blazing sun or the ashes left behind after being burnt — always, the choice and decision is yours to make. I hope you don’t forget that giving up decisively also counts as courage"

"I don’t know what circumstances you were in, but I think you must have had tremendous courage. Giving something up decisively takes lots of courage. And, you’ve worked hard"

"It’s okay to shed the tears, But don’t you tear yourself, Though you say you want to die, you actually live that much harder, Though you say you want to put everything down, you actually carry another weight, Even the thought of not having a thought is a thought, you know? That there is no freedom the moment you say freedom out loud, you know? Do you know? Take a close look at that flickering light, Isn’t a night scenery such a cruel thing? A splendid view unfolded before us that is made up of someone’s thorns, Someone else will surely be comforted by looking at your thorns, We are each other’s night scenery, each other’s moon"

"My ideal and reality–They are too far apart, But, I still want to cross the bridge and reach me, the real me. Even in that desert, it might rain, But, I’m sorry, I can’t give up on myself, I can’t let go of me who I know as myself, because you, in my head, are so whole like this, because you are so perfect"

"I wish it rains all day because I’d like someone to cry for me"

"Of course I want to be a good person. But it’s impossible for me to be liked by everyone. That would be me being greedy"

"It's alright even if you don't have a dream. It's possible not to have one"

"On your way, I'll be with you. If we're together, even the desert becomes the sea. When we're together, you can take off your mask. Your 52 hertz is always heard in our hearts. From the day the universe was born, our love was destined. Where there is you there definitely is hope. We'll fill the universe with our galaxies. It was only a melody of seven people, but now it is a harmony of millions. This is where your dreams became a reality, now onto a new tomorrow. You gave us a galaxy when we just needed a star. When we are together, our values shines. You guys have shown us the path that goes to the map of our souls. Let's not let go of each other's hands cause we're each other's will. We'll be your wings. You are holding the key to our heart. I saw the stars shining in my sky and now they are by my side. Thank you for being our comfort and impression. Thank you for showing us how to love ourselves. What a relief that we are us. What a relief we are together. Because there's no you without us. Because there's no we without you. Follow your flute sound & my shouting. We will be the shoulder you can lean on. We are dreaming of seeing you, we'll be together with 7 stars forever because you're a big existence. We love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow"

"Our Chapter 1. Our Happiness. Our beginning and end. Our most beautiful moment. Our sweetest. Our blood, sweat and tears. Our Wings. Our biggest love. Our biggest voice. Our Universe"

"As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love" 

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited"

"What is home if not the first place you learn to run from?" 

"To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live. When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.

Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

She didn’t want to die. And she didn’t want to live any other life than the one that was hers. The one that could be a messy struggle, but it was her messy struggle. A beautiful messy struggle.

Want is an interesting word. It means lack.

This was the worst life could feel, and yet it was life, and life was precisely what she wanted.

We can’t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence.

But do I want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.

And it was different because she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or partner or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself. And it was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live. Because she had touched the vastness of life and within that vastness she had seen the possibility not only of what she could do, but also feel. There were other scales and other tunes. There was more to her than a flat line of mild to moderate depression, spiced up with occasional flourishes of despair. And that gave her hope, and even the sheer sentimental gratitude of being able to be here, knowing she had the potential to enjoy watching radiant skies and mediocre comedies and be happy listening to music and conversation and the beat of her own heart. And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.

I AM ALIVE"

 "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now"

"He paused and turned to regard her. She hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said, "Why?" She thought he understood her meaning: Why her? Why save her, and now why try to rescue her? She had guessed at the answer, but she wanted to hear him say it. He stared at her for the longest while, and then, in a low, hard voice, he said, "You know why"

"Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?"