Tsutsui Mariko Quotes

I guess if Dunc and I got married.....we would live in an apartment first. With regular jobs. Then. Then we would get good jobs.
And.
And he would go to medical school.
Um.
And I would take time off to have one.
Perfect. Baby. ~ Mariko Tamaki

If that was to be my last meal," Mariko murmured, "how fitting is it that it fell from my lips before I could eat it? ~ Renee Ahdieh

It represented how Mother had lived: reach for the heavens, be firm, be unique, and don't be swayed by other people's ideas. Everything in nature has its own splendor. A flower doesn't care if it's not as tall as a tree. Bees ignore birds. Thunder doesn't compete against a volcano. She must be like that. ~ Mariko Tatsumoto

Which will you take, the high road or the low road?"
"Which one is longer?"
"They're both short. ~ Yasutaka Tsutsui

Better not think of it at all. Eat a pastry instead. ~ Mariko Tamaki

This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing. ~ Mariko Tamaki

Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide. ~ Yasutaka Tsutsui

But Mariko knew it was time to do more. Time to be more.
She would not die a coward. Mariko was the daughter of
a samurai. The sister of the Dragon of Kai. But more than that, she still held power over her decisions. For at least this one last day. She would face her enemy. And die with honor. ~ Renee Ahdieh

The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care. ~ Renee Ahdieh

I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East ... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect [audiences] with contemporary life through the technology we have now. ~ Mariko Mori

You owe no man anything, Mariko."
"Especially not a man such as he." Mariko scowled. "Regardless, I will never be one of those ladies at court who worships a man."
"No matter the man?" Ōkami joked. "Even if he worshipped you?"
"No," Mariko said. "Not even for you. ~ Renee Ahdieh

When Nick leaves our room, he leaves behind a dark thunder cloud. He has carried the shadow with him for so long that it has become a part of him and has settled in the shadows of the room. ~ Mariko Nagai

What is it like to love this person who keeps breaking up with you, and then presumably coming back to you? What does your love with this person offer? Does it make you happy? Does it give you what you need to be a better person? ~ Mariko Tamaki

My father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality. ~ Mariko Mori

I may lie every day of my life, Hattori Mariko. But my heart will always be true. ~ Renee Ahdieh

Yes. My ship'll be like her, he promised himself. She'll be trim and miniature and perfect like a Yoshitomo blade, and that's the best in the world, and just as dangerous. Next year she'll take a prize twenty times her own weight, like Mariko did at Osaka, ans she'll rip the enemy out of Asia. ~ James Clavell

I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create. ~ Mariko Mori

The moon is beautiful, isn't it?" she said.
"I imagine the moon would be a thing of beauty on a night like this. But I prefer what I'm looking at now." His eyes remained focused on Mariko as he spoke. ~ Renee Ahdieh

Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents. ~ Yasutaka Tsutsui

She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her. ~ Yasutaka Tsutsui

Perhaps the forest simply knew this was where someone like Mariko - a lost girl in search of a place to call home - could plant roots and flourish. ~ Renee Ahdieh