Otsuichi Quotes

#1. The pieces of my sister's body. I stood there, letting the meaning of those words sink in.

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#2. Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job.

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#3. Her lack of outward expression was similar to the way a thermos is never hot on the outside: No matter what was going on inside, it never affected the surface.

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#4. He had drowned the boy underground with his own hands, but his twisted mind still had the nerve to feel grief over the loss. How horrifying.

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#5. I spent nine years trying not to have any expressions, trying to be my sister. Now I can't smile, not even if I want to.

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#6. It's not that I want to kill people, I just do it to stop them talking.

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#7. Things that were merciless and cruel always captivated me. The conversations my classmates enjoyed and the warm words I exchanged with my family never really resonated with me. They were just static, like a radio that wasn't tuned properly.

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#8. When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep
it feels like sinking deep underwater

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#9. What I saw there was my own death.

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#10. My mother still made dinner. She cooked out of habit, as part of her routine, working mechanically.
But when I saw the piles of dust in the corners, it made me want to cry.

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#11. Yuka could not fight that man, but I could become the fangs that would protect her.

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#12. Right, let's go rope shopping. You should buy some rope or cord yourself; it might come in handy. You might need it when you kill yourself.

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#13. Human beings are liars. I knew that. Which is why I sought the face in death. The face with no forced smile, no performance, no deliberately composed expression.

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#14. My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.

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#15. God cannot be drawn or sculpted. The moment it is drawn, it is no longer God; the moment it is sculpted, God becomes a fake. The moment it is expressed, its divinity peels away and recedes from its true nature.

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#16. I believe that death means 'loss'.

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#17. I enjoyed watching people carry out unusual crimes.

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#18. Morino: What does the kidnapper do with those things?

Yuka: Those things?

Morino: You know, the stinky things with four legs that make a lot of noise.

Did she mean the dogs?

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#19. I want to have her hands..!
Morino's hands...

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#20. This is your grave."
"Grave? You've got to be kidding. I'm still alive."
"Burying dead people isn't as much fun," Saeki said, feeling this was extremely obvious.

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#21. It seemed self-evident that hands were the essence of humanity. That was why there were palm readers; palm readers said the lines on a person's palms allowed them to determine an individual's personality. Hands were mirror that reflected the person's past and future.

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#22. The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.

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#23. I'm not gonna die alone, no way! He will never allow it!

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#24. When you answer them, you try to put meaning in every word. That's why ... their many lies cut you.

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#25. There are people who kill, and people who get killed.

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#26. My fear was actually the cause of my inability to trust people. Fear of being deceived. Fear of being lied to. My fear of people was stealing from me the freedom of thought.

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#27. There are two kinds of humans: those who kill and those who are killed.

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#28. Will you teach me how to smile like that?

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#29. She knew nothing.
Not that she might have died that day.
Not that the person walking with her on that path in the woods was a murderer.

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#30. I wanted to clap my hands over my ears to stop from hearing his voice. It was like he was climbing into my mind without even taking off his shoes.

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