Kraft Lawrence — memorable quote from Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf

“If a member of one’s family is killed by a thief, then one should hate the thief. But people will miss aim their hatred — why should they go to where the thief hides? If one loses a family member to sickness, then one should hate the disease. It is not the doctor’s fault; yet people will hate the doctor.”

“It's still a form of love. To those with the emotion of love, acts of rebelling, anger, cursing, fighting, and killing do not work in contradiction to that emotion. Rather, too strong a love could quicken them. What the other wishes is not all there is to love.”

“If you let anger and revenge consume you... You'll find yourself unable to behold the beautiful sights right before your eyes.”

“If all you do is feed your dog, you'll get your hand bitten eventually. Let him out for a walk every once in a while.”

“The vast ocean of words. Without a means to cross the ocean, we can only stand and watch keeping the words we desperately want to express inside. A dictionary is a ship that is able to cross that ocean.”