Kinoko Nasu

“But see, there isn't a person in the world that doesn't know the weight of a sin. Maybe some people to whom the weight of sin is light instead of overbearing, but the weight is felt all the same, a small sin in the scope of their similarly small compassion, but enough to plant the doubt in him. And soon enough, that doubt grows into something they regret.”

“Your body produces some chemicals that stimulate some nerves that send a signal to your brain saying 'Oh my God, I am going to die,' and that's how you get pain.”

“Because there's nothing for me to tell. You didn't do anything, right?”

“When I was little, I was afraid of monsters. I mistook the silhouettes flitting to and fro in the midst of the bamboo trees for ghost and other horrors. But now, I'm scared of other people, people who you imagine will just jump out form behind the brush to attack you. What age was I when I started to replace the ghosts with people?”

“She had no reason to kill herself,"I say finally. "She just wasn't able to fly.”

“We don't choose the path we take because of the sins we carry. But we carry our sins on the path we choose.”

“There are two ways to escape: escape without a purpose and escape with a purpose. I call the former 'floating', and the latter 'flight'.”