“I have to get back to the hotel. But I don’t know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn’t notice where we were going.”

Even now, sometimes on street corners… when I meet someone, I see your shadow.

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen.

Don’t say the words I wanted to hear from Ren.

At that time I told myself that I didn’t want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana.

The things that stress me out haven’t changed. But I don’t wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I’m lucky…that I’m afraid of losing something.

Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

Cinderella’s glass shoe was the perfect size…. so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don’t see any other explanation.

The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don’t seem right.

The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren’s voice… I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back.

Hey Nana, If Cinderella’s glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way?

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

There are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can’t go on living alone.

I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn’t so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

Getting carried away is stupid, it won’t get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu

I want to protect my own happiness. I’m not an angel. I’m just a normal girl.

They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.

What is commonly called a pest is nature’s way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.