Novala Takemoto

“Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when who knows what's going to happen to you anyway; ignoring virtue and conventions to cherish only the pleasures you are definitely experiencing now: this is the Cocoro of Rococo. No matter how much deep thought, hard work, and agonizing effort went into coaxing out some insight, if that insight is boring, or not beautiful, it doesn't matter. And even if something is made just for laughs, if you find it pleasing, it has value. Other people's opinions and labor do not figure into your assessment; choosing things with your own personal sense of "I like this, I don't like that" is the ultimate individualism that sustains the very foundation of Rococo. Rococo, therefore, embodies the spirit of punk rock and anarchism more than any philosophy. Only in Rococo—elegant yet in bad taste, extravagant yet defiant and lawless—can I discover the meaning of life.”

“Oh, Ichigo. My darling Ichigo. There's so much that I owe you, too. But I'm never paying any of it back—not a smidgen. You're also the one who showed me that growing up might not be such a bad thing after all. Thank you, Ichigo. This is much too embarrassing for me to ever say out loud, but you're the best friend I could ever have.”

“People born in Amagasaki grow up, get married, have children, and die wearing tracksuits.”

“In my life I doubt if I will ever forget the sensation of your lips against mine”

“I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.”

“I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me”

“Your existence is the only proof of mine”

“The only things that erased my lonliness were written works”

“I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.”

“If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love”

“I don't subscribe to any religion so it didn't matter to me if I prayed in a shrine, temple, or church. Butbe cause I was asking for so much I assumed Buddha and the Christian God wouldn't even listen”

“Let's shower the world with a virus only you and I are immune to. Let's live alone on this planet”

“How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?”

“Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character”

“Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans”

“Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil”

“Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell”

“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity”

“No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway”

“The more I try the more I am scorned”

“You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life”

“I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine.”

“An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender”

“It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now”

“Obession makes everything possible”

“All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.”

“I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted”

“When great happiness unexpectedly swoops down on people, they suddenly turn into cowards.”

“When you find something precious, you have to hold on to it with all your might and never let it go, whatever else you may lose. After all, there are lots of people who die without ever finding something that's really precious to them.”

“Mickey had turned into Daisy, and Goofy had turned into Einstein—we were talking about a transmutation that would even have had Paracelsus foaming at the mouth.”

“Forbearance is a maiden's worst enemy. If you're happy, that's all that counts.”

“Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness.”

“You know what you like. You know what you want. So all you have to do is find some work related to that stuff.”

“I am a Lolita. I do not believe in growing up. No matter how old I get, I shall remain devoted to ruffles and frills.”

“There's times a woman's just got to fight, even if she knows it's a losing battle.”

“Lolitas value independence and beauty above all else.”

“Let's all get along while following our own paths and doing whatever the hell we want!”

“Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.”

“Change your undergarments every day. This very basic activity is the first step in becoming a fashionable young woman.”