Yukiko's Quotes

#1. How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#2. Our troubles are but mayflies, rising and falling between the turn of dawn and dusk. And then they are gone to the houses of memory, you and I will remain, Yukiko.

Jay Kristoff

#3. A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

Vladimir Yakunin

#4. A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.

Lil' Wayne

#5. And who am I, mighty Khan?
She felt warmth in him then, the beginnings of a smile deep inside.
He spread his wings.
Bowed his head.
Purred.
YOU ARE YUKIKO.

Jay Kristoff

#6. The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace

Tullian Tchividjian

#7. You lied to me."
"I never lied. I just didn't tell you the whole truth."
"You said you were alone."
"I am alone."
"There's hundreds of you. Maybe thousands. You and your 'family' are everywhere."
"Just because you're standing in a crowd doesn't mean you belong there." -Yukiko and Kin

Jay Kristoff

#8. I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

Les Dawson

#9. Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates.

Stephen Richards

#10. I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.

Maggie Nelson

#11. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.

Jay Kristoff

#12. Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#13. She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.

Haruki Murakami

#14. The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

Tom Selleck

#15. You give people hope, Yukiko. The strength at the heart of all strength. The steps you take now, the first steps- they are always the hardest. But the footprints you leave in the earth behind you will be followed by thousands.

Jay Kristoff

#16. Yukiko steered the subject away from sex as fast as she could. She was still occasionally woken by nightmares about the day her father had tried to sit her down for "the talk".

Jay Kristoff

#17. RAIJIN, TAKE ME NOW.
She shot Buruu a withering glance as he rolled over on his back and pawed at the sky.
HAVE MERCY ON ME, FATHER. TAKE MY WINGS. CHAIN ME TO STINKING EARTH. BUT THIS TORTURE I CANNOT ENDURE.
Oh, shut it.

Jay Kristoff