Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.
Koushun Takami, Battle Royale.
“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”
“Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the wo...”
“That was it. Shogo stopped breathing. The dim yellow light falling from the ceiling of the pilothouse shone on his pale face. He seemed at ease."Shogo!" Shuya yelled. He still had more to say. "You...”
“They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.”
“Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that”
“Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a ...”
“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and fl...”
“Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.”
“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
“Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore ...”
“I crawled over the mountain of death, Watching the corpses roll down like the stones. Searching for the light which everyone always spoke of. I fought the wolves and also the death, and knocked the...”
“God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.”
“You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.”
“I'm pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger.”
“I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.”