Top 70 Kenji's Quotes
#1. That was totally his fault-Kenji's.. He tried to cross on red.. You ignore the signal, you'll get hurt. every kindergartener knows.. red means stop.
-Slam Dunk
Takehiko Inoue
#2. Good morning, sunshine." Kenji blinks in our direction.
"Morning," I say back.
"I wasn't talking to you," he says, trying to smile.
"I was talking to the sunshine.
Tahereh Mafi
#3. I do want you," I say to him, my voice shaking. "I want you so much it scares me.
Tahereh Mafi
#4. Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart ...
That is the kind of person
I want to be
Kenji Miyazawa
#5. Kenji: Did you really love him...?
Juliette: I think so? I don't know. Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't think I even know what love is.
Tahereh Mafi
#6. I'm not falling for Warner," I say quietly.
"Sure you aren't."
"I'm not," I insist. "I'm just
I don't know." I sigh. "I don't know what's happening to me."
"They're called hormones.
Tahereh Mafi
#7. My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!
Lloyd Kaufman
#8. No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me.
Kenji Yoshino
#9. You're naked?" Kenji is suddenly studying my sheet and not bothering to be subtle about it. I flush despite my best efforts, flustered, frustrated.
"Blondie said they destroyed my clothes."
"Blondie?" Blond man is offended.
Tahereh Mafi
#10. What do you think?" I ask.
"Your suit looks like mine." Kenji frowns. "I'm supposed to be the one with the black suit. Why can't you have a pink suit? Or a yellow suit-"
"Because we're not the freaking Power Rangers," Winston says, rolling his eyes.
Tahereh Mafi
#11. We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.
Kenji Miyazawa
#12. A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.
Kenji Tomiki
#13. Love hurts but it can hurt worse if you allow your eyes to wander.
Kenji Inoue
#14. Please - please get up - and lower your voice - "
"Hell no."
"Why not?" I'm pleading now.
"Because if I lower my voice, I won't be able to hear myself speak. And that," he says, "is my favorite part.
Tahereh Mafi
#15. Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty all rolled into one.
Tahereh Mafi
#16. Kenji-""So the minute you opened your mouth you just shattered all his dreams, huh?"
Juliette- "I will push you off the roof."
Kenji-"Yeah, I can definitely see why Adam wouldn't like you.
Tahereh Mafi
#17. So, let me get this straight," Winston says. "Our plan is basically seduce the soldiers and civilians of Sector 45 into fighting with us?"
Kenji crossed his arms. "Yeah, it sounds like we're going to go all peacock and hope they find us attractive enough to mate with."
"Gross," Brendan frowns.
Tahereh Mafi
#18. I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.
Kenji Goto
#19. Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit.
Kenji Ekuan
#20. To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.
Kenji Yoshino
#21. You're my best friend, Kenji. You know that, right?" "Yeah, kid." He grins at me. "I do. And I can't believe I got stuck with your skinny ass.
Tahereh Mafi
#22. He had a smile like a hug, a kiss like a blush, and a touch like a blessing. He didn't see a whore when he looked at her. He saw Lizzie. Just Lizzie.
Shewanda Pugh
#23. You want to keep your little brother alive? Make sure you don't kill yourself while you're trying to save him.
Tahereh Mafi
#24. I am going to MURDER YOU - "
"No," he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. "Bad Juliette. You don't like to kill people, remember? You're against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows -
Tahereh Mafi
#25. You know, you have a really strange way of telling me you're attracted to me.
Tahereh Mafi
#26. Damn," Kenji says after a moment. "Damn damn damn. This shit is bananas
Tahereh Mafi
#27. Kenji clears his throat. Hey
guys? Your loin passion is grossing out the little ones.
Tahereh Mafi
#29. No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria,
Kenji Goto
#30. Kenji glances over his shoulder at me, but doesn't have the chance to turn all the way around before I crash into him, grabbing his hands and squeezing them in my own. "Don't let go," I tell him, eyes filling fast with tears. "Don't let go. You don't have to let go.
Tahereh Mafi
#31. So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"
"What?"
"All of this," Kenji says, waving a hand in the air, "has nothing to do with him being all sexy and shit and him being able to touch you all the time?"
"You think Warner is sexy?"
"That is not what I said.
Tahereh Mafi
#33. Comamandering is not a word.
It has letters, doesn't it? Sounds like a word to me.
Tahereh Mafi
#34. People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius ...
Kenji Mizoguchi
#35. Lizzie had no answer for how a whore could quiver from the caress of a man, or find tears at words that were sweet. After all, hadn't she been told she was beautiful before? Perfect? Worthy of worship?
She hadn't.
Shewanda Pugh
#37. But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn
Kenji Miyazawa
#38. It's incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard.
Tahereh Mafi
#39. She had come to him the fool, thinking herself the experienced one. After all, she had nothing to give that another hadn't had, nothing so far as she knew. But he'd taken what hadn't been there; what was his; what was promised.
Shewanda Pugh
#40. Invisible guns, huh?" Kenji smirks. "That's cute. I don't think I ever went through that phase.
Tahereh Mafi
#41. Hey
jazz hands!" Kenji barks. "Get your ass back over here." He makes it a point to look as irritated as possible. "Back to work. And this time, focus. You're not an ape. Don't just throw your shit everywhere.
Tahereh Mafi
#42. The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.
Kenji Ekuan
#43. Oh right," he says. "Because that makes sense. Because tossing a grown-ass man over your shoulders is just so freaking easy. That shit just comes naturally to you." I shrug. Kenji lets out a low whistle.
"Cocky as hell, too.
Tahereh Mafi
#44. You can't feel lonely if there's no one else around.
-Yamaguchi Kenji (Yamaken)
Robico
#45. But I'm also strong enough to break through just about anything," I tell them, "and without even injuring myself. Concrete. Brick. Glass-"
"The earth," Kenji adds.
Tahereh Mafi
#46. Who's Bruce Lee?" Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore.
Tahereh Mafi
#47. Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.
Kenji Goto
#48. Hey, um, I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm looking for a friend of mine," he says. "Have you seen her? She's a tiny little thing, cries a lot, spends too much time with her feelings-"
"Shut up, Kenji!"
"Oh wait!" he says. "It is you.
Tahereh Mafi
#49. You know, I can sort of control it now," I tell him, beaming. "I can moderate my strength levels."
"Good for you. I'll buy you a balloon the minute the world stops shitting on itself.
Tahereh Mafi
#50. One day," I say to him, "you'll realize that Warner is not as crazy as you think he is."
"Yeah." Kenji says. "Or maybe one day we'll be able to reprogram that chip in your head."
"Shut up.
Tahereh Mafi
#51. Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.
Jean Douchet
#52. You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.
Kenji Mizoguchi
#53. Oh, so now you're abusing the crippled kid, huh?" Kenji takes a moment to steady himself before punching Adam in the arm. "Save your angst for the battlefield, bro. You're going to need it.
Tahereh Mafi
#54. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.
Kenji Kamiyama
#55. Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?
Lian Hearn
#56. I'll be back to shave your head while you're sleeping." Kenji looks genuinely terrified for the first time. "You wouldn't.
Tahereh Mafi
#57. Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?"
"What?" He looks mortally offended. "Do I look like the kind of guy who's never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?
Tahereh Mafi
#58. I'm here for you kid. That's what friends are for.
Tahereh Mafi
#59. This is, by far, the craziest shit I have ever seen," Kenji says. "I really never would've believed it. Not in a million years."
"It's like a soap opera ... But with worse acting."
"I think it's kind of sweet ...
Tahereh Mafi
#60. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey
Kenji Miyazawa
#61. Can you, like, see invisible people, too?"
"No," Warner says to him, eyes focused in front of him. "I can feel your presence. Hers, most of all."
"Really?" Kenji says. "That's some weird shit. What do I feel like? Peanut butter?"
Warner is unamused.
Tahereh Mafi
#62. I'd appreciate if you'd grow the hell up and stop walking around like the world crapped on your only roll of toilet paper.
Tahereh Mafi
#63. Your suit looks just like mine." Kenji frowns. "I'm supposed to be the one with the black suit. Why can't you have a pink suit? Or a yellow suit - "
"Because we're not the freaking Power Rangers," Winston says, rolling his eyes.
"What the hell is a Power Ranger?" Kenji shoots back.
Tahereh Mafi
#64. I don't have the time, the energy, or the interest to deal with your problems.
Tahereh Mafi
#65. Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.
Kenji Ekuan
#67. These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink
Kenji Miyazawa
#68. If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat. Doesn't take a genius to figure that shit out. - Kenji
Tahereh Mafi
#69. Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blinks a few times.
"Nope."
I roll back, disappointed.
"Oh."
"This is so depressing." Kenji says.
"Yeah"
"We suck."
"Yeah.
Tahereh Mafi
#70. Okay then. Let's go get our girl back." "My girl," I correct him. "She's my girl." Kenji snorts as we head in the direction of the compounds. "Right. Minus the part where she's not actually your girl. Not anymore." "Shut up." "Uh-huh." "Whatever.
Tahereh Mafi
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