Malice

The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What’s important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we’re doing is playing at education.

Everyone has secrets. And everyone has the right to keep them. Even if they’re dead.

Parents these days don’t read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children.

And a friend who lets his friend get bullied isn't a real friend at all.

Apparently, it won’t do just to tell the reader what a particular character is like. The author needs to show their habits or their words and let the reader form an image on their own.

it was difficult when times were hard to pretend to be happy, doing the reverse was relatively simple.

When the police asked those bullies why they’d abused my student so severely, all they were able to come up with was that they ‘just didn’t like him.’ It was just hate. Pure, simple malice.

teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What’s important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we’re doing is playing at education.

He wanted to know what the current trends were. What were people reading? What did I think about the decline in reading overall? I told him that the books aimed at children and teens that were selling were the ones the Ministry of Education had promoted as ‘library recommendations’, and that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. ‘Parents these days don’t read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, they have no idea what to give their children. That’s why they cling to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education. Those books are all insufferably boring and, as a result, the kids learn to hate books; it’s a vicious circle, with no end in sight.

Hình như trong con người có bản năng mong muốn hòa mình vào cái chủ quan được viết ra, dù là của người khác. Ví dụ, nếu dễ dàng đồng cảm với nhân vật chính thì ta thấy dễ đọc và thích thú, ngược lại thì ta thấy cuốn sách thật nhàm chán. Vì vậy, cái gọi là "tường thuật" ngay từ đầu đã có sức mạnh thần kỳ. (Diễn giải của Kirino Natsuo)