Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.