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‘It is as evil as we are positive … the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive.… The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint o

“What does ‘real’ mean,” Fuka-Eri asked without a question mark. Tengo had no answer for this, of course.

Don’t let appearances fool you. There’s always only one reality.

Either I’m funny or the world’s funny, I don’t know which. The bottle and lid don’t fit. It could be the bottle’s fault or the lid’s fault. In either case, there’s no denying that the fit is bad.

“Feelings like that don’t give you any choice, do they?” Aomame said. “They come at you whenever they want to. It’s not like choosing food from a menu.”

Komatsu never came on time, and Tengo was never late.

Once he entered the mathematical world, his brain switched circuits (with a little click), his mouth emitted different kinds of words, his body began to use different kinds of muscles, and both the tone of his voice and the look on his face changed. Tengo liked the way this change of gears felt. It was like moving from one room into another or chan

But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.

Something’s wrong with the world, or something’s wrong with me: one or the other. The bottle and the cap don’t

“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person’s heart,” Leader repeated softly.