Top 35 Koushun Takami Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it’s like to be in love.”

— Koushun Takami

2. “Together, we’ll live with the sadness. I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul.”

— Koushun Takami

3. “We’re still on the run. That’s for sure. Right on. This time we’re on. And we won’t stop till we win.”

— Koushun Takami

4. “Yes, just like those flowers. There’s something strained, but there’s beauty in that. Something like that.”

— Koushun Takami

5. “By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.”

— Koushun Takami

6. “But I’m willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.”

— Koushun Takami

7. “Cowards can’t be faulted for being shy. They can’t be held responsible for anything.”

— Koushun Takami

8. “There’s no end to suspicion once you get going.”

— Koushun Takami

9. “Hey there. Here’s something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.”

— Koushun Takami

10. “Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they’re a part of you now.”

— Koushun Takami

11. “Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around.”

— Koushun Takami

12. “Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”

— Koushun Takami

13. “You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must all realize what you’re worth on your own.”

— Koushun Takami

14. “I’m weak and useless, but I’ll stay by your side.”

— Koushun Takami

15. “Even if it’s a lie, even if it’s a dream, please turn to me.”

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16. “Furthermore – though it was quite irrelevant now – he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori’s home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori’s a long time ago – and then tossed his violin into the trash.”

— Koushun Takami

17. “Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can’t think for themselves. Anything that’s too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.”

— Koushun Takami

18. “They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn’t do that.”

— Koushun Takami

19. “Your life is too precious to risk it by protesting, right?”

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20. “How do you know I didn’t bring you out here to dispose of you in private?”

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21. “On TV they keep their kids. Love them.”

— Koushun Takami

22. “Little by little – no, a lot by a lot – they all took from her. No one gave her anything. Mitsuko became a hollow shell.”

— Koushun Takami

23. “And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.”

— Koushun Takami

24. “Al Dictador le gustan las mujeres de uniforme.”

— Koushun Takami

25. “Hurry and you can have the big crybaby for first kill.”

— Koushun Takami

26. “Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?”

— Koushun Takami

27. “Yes, I’m going to die with him. I’m going to die for the sake of Hiroki’s love for me and my foolishness.”

— Koushun Takami

28. “Relax when you need to, but be tense when you need to. The point is to never mix up the two.”

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29. “He loved me... He loved me so much he sought me out at the risk of being attacked. He was in danger this whole time, with every step. In fact, the wound in his side, the wound on his shoulder... came as a result of him trying to find me.”

— Koushun Takami

30. “We’re still on the run. That’s for sure.”

— Koushun Takami

31. “Now there’s the Niida we all know and loathe.”

— Koushun Takami

32. “Hell is having no option but the wrong one.”

— Koushun Takami

33. “It’s not a bad thing to be loved.”

— Koushun Takami

34. “I was the one who attacked Hiroki. At the very end, when Hiroki managed to achieve his goal.”

— Koushun Takami

35. “He doesn’t look like the type who’s into cookies anyway.”

— Koushun Takami