“Death had brought an end to their misery. Would nothing but a visitation from that same dark angel bring and end to mine?”

“A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book)”

“Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.”

“He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.”

“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”

“Most teenage suicide attempts are cries for help; the teens survive, succeeding in bringing them the wanted attention. Mine was not a cry for help. I wanted to end my life and my misery.”