"If you feel it, if you really feel it, then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go." - Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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"Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!" - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo* * * *
"Vengeance is one of life's greatest motivators." - K.S Brooks, Lust for Danger* * * *July 2009, Aoyama Cemetery
"If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root." - Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut* * * *J
"War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance." - Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier* * * *July 2009
"War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance." - Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier* * * *And as dinner
“Where does seeking justice end and seeking vengeance begin?”―Paula Stokes,This is How it Happened * * * * July 2006 Shinjuku, Tokyo ‘Damn it, Tatsuya! Where the hell are you?!’ Ren was practically tearing through the streets of Shinjuku in search of his friend. He wasn’t at home. He wasn’t at Miyashita Park. And he most definitely wasn’t at the bar, as Ren had just come from there. Where could he be? Ren hit the brakes of his bike when he spied Tatsuya’s motorbike, nearly swerving into a nearby lamppost had he not hit on the brakes of his bike in time. Ren blinked rapidly several times before making his way over to Tatsuya’s motorbike, and started looking in several directions at once, wondering where he co
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”―Criss Jami,Healology* * * *She was there again.Always with a smile on her face which almost looks like the sun coming out, and emanating warmth and a comfort that Yuri couldn’t remember ever calling her own. Had she ever felt that warmth before? She can’t remember.But she badly wanted it back, if it had been hers at some point in her life.“Yuri, those were mine!”The voice
“Did any of them say ‘I’m glad I’m dead because death is better than slavery’? Did any of them say ‘I died for decency and it’s better than being alive’? Did any of them say ‘I’ve been rotting for two years in the earth in silence and darkness, but see how lovely it is to die for your native land’?” - Johnny Got His Gun* * * *Yuri Kirisawa leaned against the headrest of her bed, her right arm tucked beneath her head, staring at nothing in particular. She had locked herself in her room for the past three days ever since Miki’s death, and no one had tried to disturb her for which she is thankful.Not even Ren and Tohya.She desperately needed some time alone.If it’s Yuri…I believe that you can do it. If it’s Yuri…Yuri sighed to herself.