Alois Trancy — memorable quote from Black Butler

“He may seem cold-blooded, but he's more human and his heart is more brittle than anyone else... so much so that if you filled it with human love or betrayal, it'd break easily... which is why I think he chose to avoid it all from the start: to love humanity. Do you understand? Not to accept it, not to face it, but he chose to avoid it.”

“The world...God's divine creation...Is so brimming with love...Yet there is no love in the hearts of men.”

“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.”

“Men select women based on emotion. Even if there's a reason, it's only secondary. However, women select men based on reason. Either by something like his class ranking or his standing in society.”

“I think I would like someone else to kill me. I want someone else to interfere with my life. Is that not what wanting to be loved means, Saikawa-sensei? No life is born of it's own volition. Isn't the instinctive desire of beings, born not of their own volition, for their lives to be taken in the same way?”