"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.
Koushun TakamiI 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.
Koushun TakamiShinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.
Koushun Takami