“The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.”

“Most wars start with a lie, good wars, bad wars, they start with a lie, and the peace that comes afterwards, those promises of forgiveness and cooperation and fair play for all those are lies too, ...”

“Time is the only thing even money can't buy.”

“People want to believe.”

“Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.”

“Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then then the have no need of you.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“Maybe you didn't want to get married, or get tied down?'Tsukuru shook his head. 'No, I don't think that was it. I'm the sort of person who craves stability.”

“When I get married, it'll be no secret.”