Confessions Quotes
"But how many of you actually drink it at home?"
"Low levels of calcium can make you nervous and jumpy."
"You’re about to enter puberty. Your bodies will be growing and changing."
"I wanted you to know that I’ll be retiring at the end of the month."
"So what’s wrong, then, with deciding on the thing that’s right in front of you and doing it wholeheartedly?"
"I’ve always thought you were incredibly lucky to have parents who cared enough to give you that extra opportunity."
"I became a teacher simply because I grew up in a very poor family."
"I didn’t enter this profession for any of the usual reasons."
"But the truth is that most of us probably don’t even have one."
"Most children these days are coddled and spoiled."
"I wanted to teach students who were still completely committed to their education."
"I suppose they noticed how it made them feel to be treated with respect."
"I made up my mind to give her the best care a mother could."
"There was never an announcement made, but we thought you’d figure it out for yourselves."
"I’m sure when you text me saying you want to die, you truly believe on some level that 'life has no meaning'."
"I doubt that anyone who was truly despondent would send an email to announce the fact to her teacher."
"I should have realized then that she was hiding something and questioned her more."
"Manami died because I was supposed to be looking out for her and I wasn’t vigilant enough."
"But it’s also true that under other circumstances I would probably have continued to teach in order to atone for what I’d done."
"A mother’s opinion doesn’t count for much at a public school."
"A child becomes a hikikomori because of something in his home life."
"Naoki spends a good deal of his time cleaning now."
"I know he should be taking a bath at least once a week."
"Naoki seemed to be calming down for a while."
"I just didn’t connect. Ever since starting middle school, I just didn’t connect."
"I don’t want to be the worst, but I don’t have a complex about not being exceptional."
"Human beings have a fundamental need for physical and emotional space, and the desire to extinguish another life can arise when the boundaries of that space are violated."
"It’s embarrassing to admit it, but at that moment I envied my victim."
"Enjoy yourself while you can. You won’t be grinning when you see her dead on the ground in front of you."
"What I didn’t say was that I would never speak to him again once we were finished here."
"She was obviously a well-loved child—at least to my eyes."
"The murder that would allow me to do it seemed even more precious. My plan suddenly appeared utterly perfect."
"I wanted to escape this humiliation, and the murder that would allow me to do it seemed even more precious."
"I was on the verge of tears, but Shitamura brought me back to reality."
"I have nothing more to say to you, but your part begins now."
"I suddenly realized I needed some fun, a diversion of some sort."
"Life may be as fragile and light as a bubble, but her body had turned into a lump of lead."
"You’re the most deluded of all, the biggest idiot I’ve ever met."
"Revenge is a subtle thing, and I wasn’t able to hit upon a new plan right away."
"You can’t blame your crimes on someone else; they’re your own responsibility."