Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

Find me now. Before someone else does.

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.