Under their discretion, lies, secrets, crimes and even failure are nothing but the spice of one’s youth. And in their corrupt ways, they discover something peculiar about failure. They conclude that while their own failures are generally a part of relishing in youth, others’ failures should be shot down as just failures and nothing more.

Always been chasing after me, huh? Should I take that to mean Haruno has continually outdone her sister? There was cruelty in that remark, the cruelty of an absolute winner laughing at a foolish challenger, as if she were dealing with a child.

Trying to not hurt others is something you can't do. People are creatures who hurt others just by existing even if they're not aware of it. Whether you're living or dying. you'll always be hurting someone. Once you're involved, you'll hurt someone, and even by not being involved, you might be hurting someone else as well...

To cherish someone means to have the resolve to hurt then

Hayato Hayama [. . .] Basically, he was good-looking and stylish in a casual way. Fuck that guy.

I wonder why I thought the only one who would be lonely is the person who leaves, even though the people left behind would surely feel the same.

Totsuka was just so nice, it made me want to decide on our children's names together.

What I desired wasn’t to get along with someone just for show.It was surely the desire for something genuine. Anything else, I didn’t need at all.Even if you didn’t voice your words, they would still reach; even if you didn’t do anything, you would still be understood; even if anything happened, nothing would break.It was an illusion so beautiful, yet so foolish and detached from reality.She and I both longed for something that genuine.

An experienced loner does not fall for the same trick twice.

And that was why she got it. She understood those feelings of guilt. Yuigahama's kindness was not blind benevolence. Her compassion was born of her awareness of the repulsive, ugly, and cowardly nature of humanity, and she nevertheless reached out without averting her eyes.