Bungou Stray Dogs

Stop pitying yourself. Pity yourself, and life becomes an endless nightmare.

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you’ve already read it.

Justice is a weapon. It can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others.

Man fears death and yet, at the same time, man is drawn to death. Death is endlessly consumed by men in cities and in literature. It is a singular event in one's life that none may reverse. That is what I desire.

Beautiful... You're a lady as ephemeral and Elegant as a lotus blossom. Would you be willing to join me in a double suicide?

You'll let me choose? Whenever you say that, I never actually have another choice.

Do you know what it's like to be at the nadir? There is only the more, a foul stench, and self-pity. At times, someone will look in from an opening far above, but no one notices you. With every breath, your wretchedness burns your lungs. <...> Weretiger, teach her what it's like. To help no one, to be counted on by no one, and to live in hiding, trembling like a worm.

After all, to die isn't the opposite of living. It's merely a component of the process of life. Without observing death up close, one can't capture the full picture of what it means to live.

To write a story is to write about a person, and how that person should live and die.

My throat hurt. I couldn't breathe. I heard someone screaming. I realized, because my throat hurt so much, that I was the one who was screaming.

Anything I would never want to lose is always lost. It is a given that everything that is worth wanting will be lost the moment I obtain it. There's nothing worth pursuing at the cost of prolonging a life of suffering.