Shadows on the Moon

Zoë Marriott

Top 10 Best Quotes

“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”

“Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.”

“You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.”

“Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.' A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.”

“I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too.”

“On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us.”

“I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me.”

“Life is the improbable thing. It is so fragile that it can be taken away at any second, without reason or logic or warning.”

“Real love is hard because it requires one to know and accept another person with all their faults.”

“When Akira had recited the haiku to me the first time, I had been confused, thinking it compared love to storm clouds because they were capricious and fleeting. Perhaps love was capricious and fleeting, but that was not the true meaning of the poem. The true meaning was this: that love, when it came, was powerful enough to transform everything. Anything. Even the unchanging, ever-changing face of the Moon herself.”

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illusions, survival, values, lies, love, truth, inspirational, deception, self-harm