“The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.”

“It is in this darkness that I have found all light— somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.”

“How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!”

“No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.”

“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”

“To me, you'll always be like a bright star that shines and guides mefrom the opposite end of a dark alley. Good-bye, Kirito. It was reallyfortunate of me to have met you and to have been with you. — Sachi”