End of the World Blues Quotes
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“No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while.”
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“She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.”
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“All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.”
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“We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.”
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“He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world, expecting everything to be different, and never quite got over the fact it felt the same.”
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“There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.”
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“No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.”
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― End of the World Blues
“Seems to be catching."
"What is?" asked Neku.
"Wanting Kit dead."
Neku shrugged. "He was fucking the wife of a gang boss and bikers used his bar to deal drugs, plus lots of uyoku felt Yoshi Tanaka should be married to someone Japanese. Then there's chippu he owed to the local police and unpaid bills from a Brazilian transvestite who mends his motorcycle. It could have been anyone.”
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"What is?" asked Neku.
"Wanting Kit dead."
Neku shrugged. "He was fucking the wife of a gang boss and bikers used his bar to deal drugs, plus lots of uyoku felt Yoshi Tanaka should be married to someone Japanese. Then there's chippu he owed to the local police and unpaid bills from a Brazilian transvestite who mends his motorcycle. It could have been anyone.”
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“It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned one school of art into another was a result of endless failure.”
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“Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.”
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― End of the World Blues