Shungiku Quotes

#1. There's so much I want to talk about with you ... so why can't I get it out, I wonder ... ?
I want to reach you ... But the harder I try, the worse it winds up going!
This is how it always for me ... when it comes to you.
- Takano Masamune from Sekaiichi Hatsukoi by Nakamura Shungiku

Shungiku Nakamura

#2. They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

John Irving

#3. And the next time I reach for my pen,
it won't be to write about you again.
The sun will feel warm on my skin once more,
and I will get drunk on the colors of the sky
instead of tasting hangovers dripping from strangers' lips.

Sade Andria Zabala

#4. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. I won't tell him. I won't tell him that in my whole life, no one have ever made my heart beat like he does. It hurts too much to say this.
- Ritsu Oonodera - (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

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#6. I tried hard. I gave it my best.'
That's the enthusiasm we don't need, the sort that doesn't produce results. The more you're cornered, the more important it is ...
... to make your decisions based on reality and not your personal feelings.
- Takano to Onodera

Shungiku Nakamura

#7. Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.

Russell Smith

#8. Even when the thing I want most is right in front of me ... I keep thinking about how I'll just wind up losing it in the end ...
Kisa Shouta(Sekaiichi Hatsukoi)Vol.6 ch.4

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#9. The moment you challenged me, you had already lost.
-Usami

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#10. Don't you dare try to die again without asking my permission!

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#11. To everything that comes near you, I am jealous.
-Usagi

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#12. Takano Masamune- Sometimes I think delinquents are people ... who still have hope that things can still get better if they just put up an SOS sign. But I don't even have the will to lift that sign anymore.

Shungiku Nakamura

#13. The pain... the pleasure... and the shame all drive me crazy.

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#14. How many people do you think get to do the thing they love for work? -Takano Masamune to Onodera Ritsu

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#15. To be loved out of sympathy is more devastating than to be rejected.
-Shinobu

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#16. One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

DJ Shadow

#17. I am always, always watching you. And I'll be waiting here for your feelings to catch up on my own.

Shungiku Nakamura

#18. If I give up now, nothing will have changed. -Onodera Ritsu

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#19. The person I love right now is the present you.
-Takano Masamune

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#20. For you it's not a matter of can or can't do. Once you say you're going to do something, you do everything to make it happen. That's why I wasn't worried. I've always liked that about you.
- Takano to Onodera

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#21. We're hard-core realists - we just pay lip service to death and decay and keep right on feeling immortal anyway.

Peter Watts

#22. Don't get any funny ideas
When all is said and done, you're still artificial (a thing) ... Not human. Don't make the mistake of falling in love with one.

Shungiku Nakamura

#23. No, pause! I just went into totally stupid girly virgin mode!!
~Takahashi Misaki

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#24. You know ... you like me more than you think you do.
Takano Masamune

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#25. Takano Masamune- " Maybe it's just me being rebellious, but...when I'm shown something so innocent and pure, it forces me to see the filthy part of myself even more and it pisses me off...it makes me want to break him.

Shungiku Nakamura