“It is far more difficult to capture an enemy than to kill them. Capturing a soldier involves three times the effort and three times the danger. If you wish to save the life of an enemy soldier, remember that you'll lose three of your own in the process.”
“Broken promises, regardless of how horrid transform into rage that stinks to the ocean floor. Through those bonds, we're drawn together countless times.”
“Fear deals a crippling blow to soldiers. Be it a single man or a million soldiers, it makes no difference. Man can deny neither hunger nor fear.”
“It looks like you're wishing you had died instead of someone else, but... isn't it wrong to think that way? No one can take the place of another. Each person has his own destiny.”
“Have you ever imagined how it feels to be treated like you don't exist? You're right there, but you get treated like you're not. You're denied everything - every day your heart gets carved up and you experience disappointment again and again, but you have to smile anyway. Do you know how that feels?”
“One thing I'm especially good at is finding Yano, whenever or wherever he may be. Because he's the one I love.”
“Readers betray their authors.”
“Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.”
“Sometimes not lying can be a sin too, can't it?”
“It's not over yet. If we don't end it, nothing can start. Even if nothing at all begins, we must still put an end to it.”
“What's wrong with wanting to keep the man you love out of harm's way?”
“If I got angry at every little thing, my body wouldn't be able to hold it all.”
“It's not like we lost anything when there was nothing between us to start with. We could never really be equals. I've always been alone.”
“Snowdrop. I also don't know what I'm looking for. What does the future hold? Will I be able to not forget what I have found?”
“Even if he hates me, being able to die with the knowledge that the one I love will never forget me… there is no greater happiness a woman could desire.”
“O anger, turn to heat, dry up my brains! This mad thirst for vengeance must be quenched… no matter how cruel and merciless I must become!”
“To lose the woman you loved, not even being able to grieve… if not a tragedy, what is it?”
“Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”
“Profit could warm his coin purse, but never his back.”
“One can hardly lose what one does not already have.”