Fuyumi Ono Quotes

#1. It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.

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#2. She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

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#3. I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.

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#4. It wasn't that she didn't want to die. Nor was it that she wanted to live. She just didn't want to give up.

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#5. Palaces are built on the people's bones. To tell the truth, the masses would be better off without kingdoms, which is why it takes a gifted ruler to tell just the right lies so they never realize it.

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#6. I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.

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#7. People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

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#8. There are some things in this world you can never get back ... There's no reclaiming that piece of the past. Don't you think it'd be better to abandon it completely and consider instead what you did wrong and learn from it?

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#9. Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

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#10. I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

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#11. The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

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