Ai Yazawa Quotes

People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.

I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.

Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.

The longer we live the more weight we carry in our hearts.

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.

Having someone you love say "Thank you" is more rewarding than just having them say "I love you.

Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.

His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

As expected life isn't that sweet at all. When I came to Tokyo I thought I could achieve anything with my own two hands. It's not like that. To get something in these hands, I have to fight a horrible fight. But... there's not much time to grab the things you want with your hands. Why is that? And more importantly what is that I want?

But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.

I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.

I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.

You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?

From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.

Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

What people consider precious is different for everybody.

Hey, Hachi People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it--- but I think, you only really recognize it... when you see it a second time face to face. -Nana Osaki

People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone

Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this. I think just being together and talking would be nice. But when we grow old, when greed and vanity will be completely gone, when I will be tired of singing can I return to that place too?

She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.

It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?

Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?

Laugh at love and love will make you cry.

I am glad I met you and I am glad to say that.

You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.

We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again.

People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.

The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I'm anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream. That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.

Stop rushing me. I want to take my time falling in love with you.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come. Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana. But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.

A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.

I’m lucky that I’m afraid of losing something

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

People are only what they think of themselves.

That moment I felt a bit like crying. I don't really know why. Nana's hand felt so warm that it even warmed my heart.