Ai Yazawa Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

But I wonder if there is a place I fit in?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

What people consider precious is different for everybody.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?

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?