Quotes by Yukako Kabei

And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each corpse in turn, he thought with all his heart, I’m glad I didn’t die there. I have to go home. I’ve still got things to do.

I’ll try just putting one foot in front of the other, and walk a step at a time without rushing. So I can burn the path into my memory while I can still see it. So that when all this is over, I can find my way back. Because I intend to come back. Hopefully with all of us together.

Now, Kieli believed in the words no matter what. Maybe there werent really any no matter whats in this world, but right now, she believed that there were with all her heart.

Back then, living hadnt had any meaning. Every so often, without any warning or any real reason, hed even caught himself thinking, Maybe Ill try dying. Hed had one foot in the world of the dead, and yet the other foot had been chained to the world of the living, and he couldnt pull it out; hed just looed on disinterestedly, sort of like it was all happening on the other side of some window, as the dull, vague world passed him by. Never making any more to walk out into it himself. Somewhere along the way, though, hed stopped thinking about trying to die. He wondered when that had happened.

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen.

All at once it was just too much, and Harvey felt something about to snap. He drew back into the shadowy side of the doorway, out of site. Then he slid down the wall to the ground and put his palm over his mouth to hold in his breath and his feelings both. Hed forced in more air then he could hold, and his lungs were burning. More importantly, his heart hurt... He wished he hadnt eavesdropped.

I want to take one last journey together, just the three of us, and go back to Easterbury… and let the Corporal relax and rest in peace. I’ll be with you, Kieli, I’ll still be with you… Won’t that do…?

A guy with no will to live isnt worth killing.

What is this?! I couldnt die back when I wouldve been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take hardly any effort, suddenly I cant afford to yet? What the hell am I supposed to do?