“I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway...”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“Something once lost will never return”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“I'm simply one hell of a butler”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
Yana Toboso
Born place: in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Born date January 24, 1984
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“Be glad you don't have a vagina," my friend, who does have a vagina, told me. "You have to have a special doctor. You have to have these awful exams where you basically get naked and then remove your dignity. And then the various parts down there can get cancer and have to get cut out. I'm telling you, having a vagina is like having a pet. Like a dog that's always chasing cars."
When she described it this way, it did seem a blessing that I was born without a vagina. I mean, I can't even handle having a heart.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Possible Side Effects
“I shall think of you
Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing.
You are a burning lamp to me, a flame
The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, quote from Collected Poems
“Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise.”
― Alan Bradley, quote from I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from The Last Dragonslayer
“А паметта продължаваше да живее. Той виждаше сега не госпожа Оота, а залеза, който видя от прозореца на вагона, вече на път за в къщи, след нощта в камакурския хотел. Зад стъклото изплува очарователното очертание на храма Хоммон-дзи в Икегами. Слънцето — червено и кръгло като топка, бавно се спускаше от клон на клон. Короните бяха съвсем черни и релефно се очертаваха на фона на заревото. Провиращите се между клоните лъчи на залязващото слънце заслепяваха очите на Кикудзи и той ги затвори. И тогава у него се появи усещането, че хилядата бели жерави, изпърхали от розовата фурашики на Юкико и прелетели през багровочервения залез, влетяха под неговите плътно затворени клепачи.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from Thousand Cranes
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The Namesake
Gift from the Sea
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