Novala Takemoto Quotes

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now

When you find something precious, you have to hold on to it with all your might and never let it go, whatever else you may lose. After all, there are lots of people who die without ever finding something that's really precious to them.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

Your existence is the only proof of mine

Change your undergarments every day. This very basic activity is the first step in becoming a fashionable young woman.

April marks the season when school begins. You wear your new school uniform, and I ask you to please be as unstylish as those fuji dawn flowers. If I find you that way, I may turn you into a gift of a potted plant against your will.

All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.

Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when who knows what's going to happen to you anyway; ignoring virtue and conventions to cherish only the pleasures you are definitely experiencing now: this is the Cocoro of Rococo. No matter how much deep thought, hard work, and agonizing effort went into coaxing out some insight, if that insight is boring, or not beautiful, it doesn't matter. And even if something is made just for laughs, if you find it pleasing, it has value. Other people's opinions and labor do not figure into your assessment; choosing things with your own personal sense of "I like this, I don't like that" is the ultimate individualism that sustains the very foundation of Rococo. Rococo, therefore, embodies the spirit of punk rock and anarchism more than any philosophy. Only in Rococo - elegant yet in bad taste, extravagant yet defiant and lawless - can I discover the meaning of life.

Let's shower the world with a virus only you and I are immune to. Let's live alone on this planet

People born in Amagasaki grow up, get married, have children, and die wearing tracksuits.

There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy.

I don't subscribe to any religion so it didn't matter to me if I prayed in a shrine, temple, or church. Butbe cause I was asking for so much I assumed Buddha and the Christian God wouldn't even listen

I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine.

In my life I doubt if I will ever forget the sensation of your lips against mine

Let's all get along while following our own paths and doing whatever the hell we want!

If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love

Mickey had turned into Daisy, and Goofy had turned into Einstein - we were talking about a transmutation that would even have had Paracelsus foaming at the mouth.

How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance ... what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

I am a Lolita. I do not believe in growing up. No matter how old I get, I shall remain devoted to ruffles and frills.

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender

Oh, Ichigo. My darling Ichigo. There's so much that I owe you, too. But I'm never paying any of it back - not a smidgen. You're also the one who showed me that growing up might not be such a bad thing after all. Thank you, Ichigo. This is much too embarrassing for me to ever say out loud, but you're the best friend I could ever have.

I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me

The more I try the more I am scorned

But 'tis a fine line between silliness and supreme beauty, no more than a hair's breadth wide.

Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character

Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness.

When great happiness unexpectedly swoops down on people, they suddenly turn into cowards.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.