“What's been troubling me lately are these small farewells that make me feel a bit lonely. Brief meetings and farewells. I want to treasure each and every moment.”
“I have not changed at all. There were two of me to begin with. It was merely a swap between us. I have no intent on hiding this. Whether or not you believe it is up to you, Tetsuya. However, if you want to call it a "change", then that was because it was necessary. The team did not change because I had changed. I changed because the team had changed.”
“Humans, in general, feel uneasy when there’s dissonance between them and their external environment. And so, to cancel that uneasiness they try to synchronize (or make peace) with that environment.”
“Ha-ha these humans are definitely foolish creatures. Think as hard as those weak brains of yours can manage. Do you humans ever listen to the cries of mercy coming from pigs and cows you slaughter?”
“We each have an arrow in our hearts that we cannot remove.”
“Our differences are what let us understand each other. We've worked together to come this far, there are no doubts or regret anymore. I'll overcome this fight and prove that even we can come to an understanding.”
“No one can justify life by linking happy moments into a rosary.”
“They say you never know when a bullet you fired in battle will find its way back to you.”
“Oh, I almost forgot. In the event that anyone besides big-headed Near or the deluded murderer is reading these notes, then I should at least perform the basic courtesy of introducing myself, here at the end of the prologue. I am your narrator, your navigator, your storyteller. For anyone else but those two, my identity may be of no interest, but I am the old world's runner-up, the best dresser that died like a dog, Mihael Keehl. I once called myself Mello and was addressed by that name, but that was a long time ago.”
“There is no heaven or hell. No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die. Death is Equal.”
“From the past... I always wanted to ask. God, why... Are you so unfair and extremely cruel? Why do you separate those who can fly... And those who cannot and bring them into existence? Why, in this one world... You made the effort to divide them into two and bring them together? In reality everyone was born with wings!.. Why didn't I realize that until now? It's not that those who can fly are able to fly, but that those who think of flying... Those who believe they can fly are the ones who can fly.”
“If you've decided that you can't do it even before you act, you have already made it into something impossible.”
“This is exactly why I detest adults! You always have such a parochial approach, always trying to force the rules of your petty world onto others!”
“It takes more courage to speak the truth than it does to wield a sword.”
“Manipulating the pieces according to your strategy... That is what defines a King.”