Listen for the Lie
Quotes from the Book
I hate nice girls. Just exchanging greetings with them will get them on your mind. Start texting each other, and your heart will be set a flutter. If they call you, you're done for. Enjoy staring at your logs and grinning like a fool. However, I won't get fooled again. That's what your kind calls kindness. If you're nice to me, you're nice to others. I always end up nearly forgetting that. Reality is cruel, So I'm sure lies are a form of kindness. Thus, I say kindness itself is also a lie. I always ended up with these expectations. And I always ended up with these misunderstandings. And before I knew it, I stopped hoping. A highly trained loner is once bitten, twice shy. As a veteran on this battlefield of life, I've gotten used to losing. That's why I always hate nice girls. — Hachiman Hikigaya
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A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.
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Hey, I'm totally an adult! I bitch and whine, I lie through my teeth and do things that are unfair. — Hachiman Hikigaya
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Nobody's perfect. They are weak, with ugly hearts, and they quickly turn to jealousy. They try to knock others down. It's so odd . . . In the world we live in, the greater a person is, the more difficult his or her life becomes.
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- Working hard isn't enough to ensure that your dreams always come true... In fact, it's often more common for them not to. But you can still find solace in the fact that you tried your best. [...] - I think that people should try to reach their limits and surpass them... That would be what's best for Yuigahama-san in the long run.
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If you want to protect your pride, you don't need people to like you!
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In other words she was good at adjusting herself to other people... But tat could also mean she simply lacked the courage to be herself if it meant she had to risk ending up all alone.
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How rude could you get? She was treating a boy she'd only just met as an inferior being. The only other person I can think of who does that is a Saiyan prince.
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Nothing is less trustworthy than a woman's tears.
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Frankly, if her face wasn't so cute, I would most certainly have been punching it.
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She's not tsundere. She's just an unpleasant woman.
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Are you a terrorist? Or just an idiot?
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Under their discretion, lies, secrets, crimes and even failure are nothing but the spice of one’s youth. And in their corrupt ways, they discover something peculiar about failure. They conclude that while their own failures are generally a part of relishing in youth, others’ failures should be shot down as just failures and nothing more.
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Hayato Hayama [. . .] Basically, he was good-looking and stylish in a casual way. Fuck that guy.
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What the hell? Die in a fire, youth. Die in a fire.
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She was quit a handsome man, my sister.
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When people already have an impression of you, it's not easy to change your pre-existing relationships by adding something to the mix. When people evaluate each other, it's not an addition or subtraction formula. They only perceive you through their preconceived notions. The truth is that people don't see you as you truly are. They only see what they want to see, the reality that they yearn for.
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About Wataru Watari
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Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. "Youth" is a crock, he believes--a sucker's game, an illusion woven from failure and hypocrisy. But when he turns in an essay for a school assignment espousing this view, he's sentenced to work in the Service Club, an organization dedicated to helping students with problems in their lives! How will Hachiman the Cynic cope with a job that requires--gasp!--optimism?
Book details
- First published
- 2011
- Author
- Wataru Watari
- Genre
- Romance
- Goodreads rating
- 4.19 (2k ratings)
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