What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

You may need to change your dreams.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

Entrepreneurs are innovators, visionaries—generators of new ideas turning into coinage

It's useless to lecture a human.

I needed to wake up, stand up, and fight.

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.