I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along. ' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
I can't protect without holding a sword, I can't embrace you while holding a sword.
If it's me, it would be a waste not to dance no matter what.
Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life. . . and fights to defend pride.
Death is not goodbye.
Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!
If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?
I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
Order and system are nobler things than power.
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.