Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

I am not made for despair

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.