“Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... "
- Shigure Sohma”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“When did you become a woman?"-Hatori
How dare you ask that after you have seen me naked so many times..."-Yuki
GASP! No it cant be! Yuki-kun, does that mean..." fan club girls
NO! He's my doctor..."Yuki”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..."
Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit."
Yuki: "Thank you. So much.”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Yuki: "Honda-san... you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head."
Kyo: "Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Arisa: "You bastard! Why don't I teach you a lesson!"
Kyo: "I'd like to see you try, bitch!"
Yuki: "I have a winning hand."
Tohru: "I knew you'd be good at this.”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?"
Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Hatori: "That being said, Yuki... when did you become a woman?"
Yuki: "How dare you say that after you've seen me naked so many times...”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“I kept making you cry... didn't I?
- Hatori Sohma”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“To me...she was spring. It was as if while imprisoned inside the dark cage of the inner family...I had completely frozen into snow...and then there she was--fresh, clear spring. It was almost inevitable that..I would fall in love with her. -Hatori”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Liz?"
"Hmmm?"
"Why do you care about me?"
The question seems to startle me. It's uncharacteristic for Richie, who is usually so cool and self-assured. I open my eyes. "Why would you ask me that?"
"Because I don't understand. We're so different."
I reach around the side of his face. Once again, I wipe fresh beads of sweat from his forehead. This time, I don't even bother wiping my hands on my pants. I lace my fingers into his again, and the two of us lie together, his damp clamminess seeping onto my made up face and my pretty clothes. Obviously, I couldn't care less.
"But we fit," I whisper. "Like this." And I tighten my grip around him.
"Mmm." He smiles, his eyes still closed.
"You're right. We do."
"Richie...I'm lying. I don't like you."
"You don't?" His voice cracks.
"No." I bring my lips close to his ear. "I love you Richie Wilson.”
― quote from Between
“To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Christopher . . . are these from you?” she asked at lunch, careful to make her tone light as she placed the two picture-poems on the table. Christopher’s eyes fell to them, and he smiled.
“Yes.”
He didn’t ask if she liked them, and he didn’t seem embarrassed.
Sarah was flustered, and somewhat surprised by Christopher’s easy confidence. Even so, her natural suspicion surfaced. “Why?”
“Because,” he answered seriously, “you make a good subject. Your hair, for one, is like a shimmering waterfall. It’s so fair that it catches the light. It makes you seem like you have a halo about you. And your eyes—they’re such a pure color, not washed out at all, deep as the ocean. And your expression . . . intense and yet somehow detached, as if you see more of the world than the rest of us.”
Flustered, she could think of no way to respond. Did he just say this stuff from the top of his head? Only her strict Vida control kept her from blushing.
Meanwhile Nissa entered the cafeteria. She started to sit, then glanced from the pictures, to Christopher, to Sarah. “Should I go somewhere else?”
Christopher nodded to a chair, answering easily, “Sit down. We aren’t exchanging dark secrets—yet.”
Nissa flashed a teasing look to her brother as she took a seat. “As his sister, I feel the need to inform you, Sarah, that Christopher has been talking about you incessantly.”
Christopher smiled, unembarrassed. “I suppose I might have been.’
“Especially your eyes—he never shuts up about your eyes,” Nissa confided, and this time Christopher shrugged.
“They’re beautiful,” he said casually. “Beauty should be looked at, not ignored. I try to capture it on paper, but that’s really impossible with eyes, because they have a life no still portrait can capture.”
Sarah’s voice was tied up so tightly she thought she might be able to speak again sometime next year. No one had ever talked about her—or to her—with such admiration.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, quote from Shattered Mirror
“I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from Finally
“justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future. We’re not fighting for the dead. We’re fighting for the living. And for those who aren’t yet born.”
― Pierce Brown, quote from Morning Star
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