Piercing Quotes
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“Who knew there were still people like that in this world, though? Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity. 'It must have made you very sad when your own father raped you - can you describe some of your feelings at the time? Yes, I wept and wept, wonder why something like this had to happen to me'. It's like that. Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.”
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“In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.”
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“Thanks to the imagination, there’s no end to things in this world that can trigger anxiety.”
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“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.”
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“That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.”
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“Every time he studied this instrument, with its slender, gleaming steel rod that tapered down to such needle-like sharpness, he wondered why it was necessary to have things like this in the world. If it were truly only for chopping ice, you'd think a completely different design might do. The people who produce and sell things like this don't understand, he thought. They don't realize that some of us break out in a cold sweat at just a glimpse of that shiny, pointed tip.”
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“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves.”
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“Everyone’s running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what’s really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.”
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“Los niños luchaban con desesperación por amar a sus padres. De hecho, antes que odiar a un padre, elegían odiarse a sí mismos.”
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“Memories are't like words; they're soft and gooey. Covered with a sticky slime, like a penis after sex, or your vagina when you menstruate, and shaped like tadpoles or tiny watersnakes”
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“Such behaviours weren’t the reasons parents abused children but the results of abuse.”
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“He’s got five rings in his ear, eighteen gauge to ten gauge, but when I told him to get one in his nipple to match mine, and to get a Sailor Moon tattoo - because I like Sailor Moon? - or if not that, a skull, he stopped calling me.”
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“The instant you put something like that into words, it was gone. Words and combinations of words - the more you relied on them, the less power you actually had.”
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“She stepped towards the door beneath the sign, then stopped and looked back at him. ‘You’ll be right here, right?’
‘I promise.’
‘And you’ll stay with me tonight, won’t you?’
‘Of course. I won’t leave you.’
I’ve got to snuff her as soon as possible and get this over with, Kawashima thought as he watched her enter the building.”
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‘I promise.’
‘And you’ll stay with me tonight, won’t you?’
‘Of course. I won’t leave you.’
I’ve got to snuff her as soon as possible and get this over with, Kawashima thought as he watched her enter the building.”
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“To be able to choose your own pain - it's a little scary, she thought, but it's wonderful, too.”
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“The mental and emotional torment of the old cycle of anxiety - unable to bear being alone, wanting someone always near but growing anxious when someone does get close, fearing that if they get any closer there's no telling what might happen, until the fear itself becomes unbearable and solitude seems the only solution..”
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“Sólo cuando de verdad veías las palabras desaparecer, te dabas cuenta de lo secas y muertas que estaban, como hojas marchitas o dinero viejo y desechado.”
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“Chiaki believed that if you chose something painful, accepted the pain and left something beautiful behind on your body as a result, you got stronger.”
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“Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn’t any such thing as help in this world.”
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“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else’s story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.”
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“It was only when you actually experienced words vanishing that you realised how dry and lifeless they were, like dead leaves or old, discarded money.”
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“To be able to choose your own pain - it’s a little scary, she thought, but it’s wonderful, too.”
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“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease. Kindness, gentleness - anything along those lines just caused tension, since there was no telling when it would turn to overt hostility.”
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“It’s vital that those on the receiving end of violence ponder its meaning. A sad and bitter but important truth.”
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“When you have a chronic illness,’ she’d tell him, ‘getting frustrated or impatient with it just makes things worse, right?’ Isn’t that what they say? That you have to live in harmony with an illness? To think of it as an old friend?”
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“The mental and emotional torment of the old cycle of anxiety - unable to bear being alone, wanting someone always near but growing anxious when someone does get close, fearing that if they get any closer there’s no telling what might happen, until the fear itself becomes unbearable and solitude seems the only solution”
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“Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.”
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“Just before words vanish they acquire a sickening pulpy smell, like clumps of dead grass whipped by the wind into dry little spheres, and they spill from the brain and the vocal cords, down through the blood vessels and nerves to the deepest, farthest corners of your body.”
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