Koushun Takami Quotes

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• Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

  Koushun Takami

  Loving Someone

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

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  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.

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  Falling In Love, Nice, Knowing

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• Takako looked into Hiroki's eyes and grinned. "You've become quie a stud." "And...you're the most stylin' girl in the world." Takako smiled faintly. She wanted to thank him, but she was out of breath. She just stared at Hiroki's eyes. She was grateful. At least she wasn't going to die alone. The last person to stay with her ended up being Hiroki. And she was grateful. She really was.

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  Girl, Grateful, Eye

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• To memorize something,it's best to write it down.

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  Writing

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• Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.

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  Students, Courses, Left

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• How do you know I didn't bring you out here to dispose of you in private?

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  Knows, Do You Know

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• Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago--and then tossed his violin into the trash.

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  Home, Ideas, Long

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• But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.

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  Believe, Needs, Way

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• She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at paintings, allow yourself to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her, and love her.

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  Girl, Thinking, Sky

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• Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.

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  School, Class, Years

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• Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

  Koushun Takami

  Nice, Boys, Jewelry

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• Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.

  Koushun Takami

  Bats, Hey, You Like It

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• I just didn't want to be a loser anymore... -Mitsuko Souma

  Koushun Takami

  Want, Loser

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• You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must all realize what you’re worth on your own.

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  Rich Family, Realizing, Poor

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• Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around

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  Lying, World, Needs

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• We're still on the run. That's for sure.

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  Running, Stills

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• One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable of coming to such a realization, this was what it came down to: he, Kazuo Kiriyama, felt no emotion, no guilt, no sorrow, no pity, towards the four corpses, including Mitsuru's—and that ever since the day he was dropped into this world theway he was, he had never once felt a single emotion.

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  Sorrow, Guilt, Realization

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• They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.

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  Believe, Together, Might

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• You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you." I like you, too. I love you so much." If he weren't so inarticulate, Kazuhiko could have said so much more. How much her expression, her gentle manner, her pure untainted soul meant to him. How important, in short, her existence was to him. But he wasn't able to put into words. He was only a third-year student in junior high, and worst yet, composition was one of his worst subjects.

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  I Like You, Love You, Expression

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• And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.

  Koushun Takami

  Car, Dry, More Time

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• Hurry and you can have the big crybaby for first kill.

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  Firsts, Crybabies, Bigs

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• It's not a bad thing to be loved.

  Koushun Takami

  Bad Things

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• There's no end to suspicion once you get going.

  Koushun Takami

  Ends, Suspicion

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• ‎"Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

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  Mom, Dad, Way

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