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“I so cherish these enlivening moments when you defy me even as a Blondy. When you react to me so humanly. I feel myself tingling right down to the center of my brain. I love how you look at me with such undisguised disdain. It's so endearing I want to rip out your beating heart and press it to my cheek.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion

“As far as he was concerned, a kid who’d won life’s lottery because of his genes and not his own hard work wasn’t worth the trash in the gutter. He wasn’t about to address as equals those who had no interest in knowing the difference.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion

“…He’d believed that in the final analysis, there were only two kinds of human beings: the lucky ones and the unlucky ones.

The lucky ones sucked the life out of those around them and only grew stronger. The unlucky ones were condemned to lose everything and spend the remainder of their days slinking the lower depths.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion

“Choosing meant nothing without being chosen.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion

“Under the wan glow of the streetlights behind the curtain of falling rain, Riki became part of the nightscape itself, a distinct presence that would not be buried beneath the smoky darkness.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion

“Inside Guardian’s gilded birdcage, the heir to the Kuger throne-the little prince, so clueless and vain-anxiously awaited Kirie to be allowed in.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion