I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.