“It only took a moment for everything to click. In that instant, I understood. A leader is somebody who can bring a sense of calm and excitement at the same time.”
“Celebrating Mr. Jesus's birthday (Christmas) was fun, why don't we celebrate Buddha's and Muhammad's birthday next time?”
“Oh, I'm sorry. Her head's so empty, so I mistook her for a vase and put flowers in her. You might want to spit that out quick, though. Those can be quite poisonous.”
“You know why people stress over things? Because there aren't any easy answers.”
“How I envy the feeble and frail... If I were inept, I could simply blend in, not stand out, and get lost in the crowd. I yearned to be just another sheep... And if that was asking too much I'd settle for... walking among the lions.”
“I can't forgive you for calling me fat! But even more than that... Not just for stealing the last chip... or calling me fat... most importantly I won't forgive anyone who insults my best friend!”
“The important things in life, like feelings, hearts, and souls, are all things you can never see. The more you try to reassure yourself that they exist, the more you feel they don't exist at all. But right now, I know for sure that they do exist. They're so close, you can almost touch them.”
“We must demonstrate that we took action, even if our action was meaningless.”
“Everyone's fighting for their own kind of freedom. It seems small; but in their hearts, nothing is more important. With such hopes, I won't have enough time for revenge or fear, right?”
“Sometimes one must lose the battle in order to win the war.”
“People who can't love themselves are the ugliest.”
“Even if they're not your own child, you can't, as an adult, overlook their wrongdoings.”
“I'll tattle-tale to Yachiru if you keep that up, Ikkaku!”
“Maybe, just maybe, it's a concept that's similar to a zero in mathematics. In other words, it's a symbol that denies the absence of meaning, the meaning that's necessitated by the delineation of one system from another. In analog, that's God. In digital, that's zero.”
“Actually... Ponytails turn me on... that ponytail you had back then, it looked so good it was criminal!”