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.

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

...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.

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

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

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

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