"If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment."
-Book I, Chapter 1, Aomame, p. 6

"We share the same fate."
-Book I, Chapter 4, Tengo, p. 42

"It's not that my consciousness or my mind has given rise to some abnormality, but rather that some kind of incomprehensible power has caused the world around me to change."
-Book I, Chapter 9, Aomame, p. 106

"It could be that everything's decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that."
-Book I, Chapter 15, Aomame, p. 192

"Even if things were the same, people's perception o f them might have been very different back then. The darkness of the night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
-Book I, Chapter 17, Aomame, p. 214

"The people who are...