I Want To Eat Your Pancreas Quotes
"I imagine a great many tearful people are at her funeral, their numbers and tears proving her life meant something; but I’m not among them."
"I’ve always been the type to stay in my room, unless I had to go to school, or my former classmate dragged me out into the world."
"I can’t change that now. I figure I’ll return the book to her family when I’m finished."
"If that holds some deeper meaning, then I don’t know."
"By the time I finish the book, it’s evening."
"The pancreas regulates digestion and metabolism."
"I’d rather you not hang all the pressure of saving your life on one tiny organ in my body."
"‘You don’t even know what a pancreas does,’ she teased."
"I’m not sure, but I think I meet the girl in my dreams."
"The thing about people is they don’t really care about anyone but themselves."
"Don’t you have a lot of things you want to do? Like meeting up with your first crush, or maybe hitchhiking around in foreign countries until you find the place you want to spend your last days?"
"Every day is worth the same as any other. What I did or didn’t do today doesn’t change its worth. Today, I had fun."
"I’ve never had any friends, so of course I’ve never had a girlfriend."
"What’s real on the inside is more important than appearances, after all."
"I don’t want to be cremated. It’s like permanently removing someone from the world. I wonder if I could just have everyone eat me instead."
"I don’t want to blabber on about things nobody’s interested in hearing about."
"You’re the only one I’ll tell, BoyI’mGettingalongWithBoy I’m Getting along WithBoyI’mGettingalongWith-kun. You’re the only one who can give me reality and normalcy."
"Let’s always get along till the day I die."
"Life isn’t a novel—if you think everything I say has to mean something, you’re seriously mistaken. It didn’t mean anything."
"You’d better not go back on your word, you hear?"
"You’d better not go back on your word"—was a trap. Or at least, that’s how I came to view it.
"What’s wrong?" she asked. "First the bento, then the bullet train? I need you to tell me what you’re planning today."
"Don’t be so depressing. This is a trip. You’ve got to cheer up!"
"Instead of looking at yourself," she said, "you should look at me."
"You don’t have to pay me back, either." "No, I’m going to pay you back for everything."
"I told them I was going with Kyōko. If I tell my parents it’s something I want to do before I die, they’ll pretty much let me do anything."
"I’m on board with your plan and this train. I’m just taking a long hard look at myself."
"That’s too bad," she said. "Maybe I should, then. Oh wait, I forgot, I’m going to die soon."
"We’re allowed to eat on the bullet train, you know. Do you want one?"
"If you don’t like it, you should come up with your own."
"Living is sharing connections with other people."
"Everyone is where they are because of the choices they’ve made."
"Our choices led us to being in the same class. Our choices brought us to the hospital."
"I want to be someone who could know other people, and who could be known."
"To be someone who could love other people, and who could be loved."
"I assumed my death had not yet been assigned, and could come at any time."
"I hadn’t gone to visit her house after her funeral and after her cremation. I stayed in my room every day reading my books."
"The key is in the object that brought us together in the first place."
"My mom’s soup is always tasty, no matter what else is happening in the world."
"Oddly, I don’t feel any sense of guilt over what happened."
"Besides, falling to pieces won’t bring her back. The only reasonable action is to keep myself together."
"I remove my shoes and step in from the entryway. Her house feels bigger and colder than when I came here before."
"For the first time, I realized I was unique."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you. Words could never express the depths of my gratitude."