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“She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at paintings, allow yourself to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her, and love her.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“If you could see for yourself then there'd be no need to lend an ear to what others said.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“All of a sudden Yutaka realized he had created a cloud of dust all around him. Oh no! No! This sucks. This blows more than your mama! Hey, now's not the time to come up with stupid jokes!”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“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, Battle Royale

“Now once again: '2 students remaining.'
But of course they're part of you now.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Your life is too precious to risk it by protesting, right?”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...

-Mitsuko Souma”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“—Deberías saber lo que es la igualdad. Atiéndeme: todo el mundo nace igual. El trabajo de tu padre en el Gobierno de la prefectura no te otorga ningún derecho a privilegios especiales. No eres distinto a los demás. Escuchadme todos —dijo Sakamochiâ€�. Todos vosotros tenéis historias y pasados distintos y personales. Desde luego, algunos de vosotros provenís de familias acaudaladas, otras de familias pobres. Pero circunstancias que están más allá de vuestro control, como las descritas, no deberían determinar lo que sois. Todos vosotros debéis ser conscientes de lo que sois por vuestros propios medios. Así que, Kyoichi, no pretendas convencernos de que eres alguien especialâ€� ¡porque no lo eres!”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“It" was continuing. The game was undeniably in progress. A long funeral procession, a crowd of peoplewearing black. A man in a black suit with a somber know-it-all face addressed them, "Oh, ShuyaNanahara and Noriko Nakagawa? You two, that's right, you're a little early. But you did just pass byyour own graves right here. We carved in the number you two share, No. 15. Don't worry, we'reoffering a special bonus.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“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, Battle Royale

“Listen, everyone, you all have your own circumstances. Some of you come from rich families,and some poor. But your value isn't determined by such things--by things beyond your control. Each one of you must discover your own worth through your own efforts. So... don't make the mistake of thinking you alone are special.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Relax when you need to, but be tense when you need to. The point is to never mix up the two.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Together Noriko we'll live with the sadness.I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place. Where we really want to and we'll walk in the sun. But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“En fin, los buenos no siempre se libran, y este juego no es una excepción. Puede que sean los irresponsables quienes terminen ganando. Pero yo respeto a cualquiera que actúa de acuerdo con su conciencia, incluso a riesgo de morir y ser repudiado por todo el mundo.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“-Estoy seguro de que sabes lo que te voy a decir, Shuya pero amar a alguien siempre implica no amar a otros.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“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, Battle Royale

“Al Dictador le gustan las mujeres de uniforme”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“I am who I am.And you're you.Even if I'm pretty good at basketball or computers, or popular with the girls, that doesn't make me a better person. You can make people laugh and you're kind. When you're serious, you're much more sincere than I am. Like with the girls. I'm not resorting to the cheap cliche about everyone having something to offer, but i'm saying there are a lot of things I admire about you.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“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, Battle Royale

“I was the one who attacked Hiroki. At the very end, when Hiroki managed to achieve his goal.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“If I tell you will you go?"

"What? I don't get. What do you mean?"

"I love you, Kotohiki. I've loved you for a real long time.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“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, Battle Royale

“We’re alive. Isn’t that enough?”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“His insides looked like a slop bucket at a sausage factory.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Noriko's right leg dangled from her chair, blood gushing from the wound, staining her white sock and sneaker in bright red, like she had put on one of Santa's boots.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“What I mean is, even an ordinary guy like me sometimes can think that everything is pointless. Why do I wake up and eat? It all ends up shit in the end. Why do I go to school and study? Even in the unlikely chance that I become successful in the future, I’m still going to die. You can dress nice and make people envious, or get rich, but none of it means anything. It doesn’t mean a damn thing. Anyway, maybe such meaninglessness is appropriate for this shitty nation.
But—and here’s the ‘but'—you and me, we have other emotions like happiness, right? We can find enjoyment. It’s nothing that amounts to much—but isn’t that what fills the emptiness inside us? At least for me, that’s the only answer I know.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Para entonces ya estaba muerta. En realidad, puede que llevara muerta mucho tiempo. Físicamente, solo unos segundo; mentalmente toda una vida.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Si puedes ver las cosas con tus propios ojos, no hay necesidad de que pongas la oreja para averiguar lo que dicen los demás”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Zerbrich dir nicht den Kopf über etwas, an dem du nichts ändern kannst. Tu was du kannst, selbst wenn die Erfolgsaussichten unter einem Prozent stehen.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Blood dripped from the neckline of the helmet, which was now more of a bowl of soup or perhaps a sauce.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale