And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“I clearly wasn’t in the inner circle, nor was I a member of the orbiters. I wasn’t sure if I even fit… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“The woman had gasped beneath his heavy body. He rubbed against her, lubricated by the warm, sticky liquid, but as her body gradually grew… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“But even a nice mom and dad like this can't really sense how their child's been assaulted by commercialism ever since she was little,… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“For a nymphomaniac like myself, I suppose there could be no job more suitable than prostitution; it is my God-given destiny. No matter how… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the one who… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“This didn't make me sad exactly - it was more a feeling that my own world was too simple, too smooth, too boring and… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
