So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.