After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?