E.J. Koh quotes:

Love?' Echo was right. All destruction started from love, didn't it?

We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger than you.

Spirits didn't notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next.

Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are.

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet.

The red was something none of them could contain.

You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.

He had forgotten they lived with a rope around their necks - until it cinched.

Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.

The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement.

We have time. Fear tangled into her clothes, cinched the shirt, spiraled into the veins.

Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia."

Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.

The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe.

Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia.

Azel was an aficionado in killing and in chocolate cake.