there are twelve little animals lined up in a row

ding dong ding dong goes the bells, and one can hear and another one can't.

They never were a truth. Always a lie: a stain to be hidden, a doll with too many layers to be displayed and a ghost to forever haunt.

Ikuko wonders when she's put it all together, the puzzle that is Hachigo Tohya - or Ushiromiya Battler.

Neither the dead nor the living can forget about tomorrow.

[poetry collection] They were young and innocent and impressionable when they entered the war, and now they weren't.

The tragic genius, the tragic actress, the tragic policeman and the tragic detective in the shadows... It's too bad they all end in tragedy, isn't it? But there's still the writer, and their tale is eternal.

[AU] He was the Cat-Cursed, the King's prisoner pet, lower than the most despicable men until rebels set him free to see how the kingdom will be upturned. But if it is, he doesn't see. He finds a girl that pities his plight and a garden amidst the rubble instead. And maybe even a cure to the curse, with a love potion and a bottle of wine and a witch...

The laws of conservation were absolute. Resources couldn't just disappear from the cycle of life. They simply changed. Became something else. And yet humans ran out of things anyway.

[Gundam: Iron Bloodied Orphans] They were own stubborn in their own way, and that made it very difficult to see the whole picture.

The war goes forever on, and they aim for the holy grail which holds inside of it the strongest despair.

Matsuda sincerely hoped that, when Chief Yagami had said he wouldn't allow his daughter to marry a police officer or detective, it didn't apply to ex- ones and it didn't specifically apply to him.

Yurin and Desil will never leave him be, but mostly Yurin.

Because life is a garden bed and they are the seeds that struggle through ash and rotten comrades and weeds.

They barely remember their first meeting...but they're connected nonetheless.

Some things changed after one died and found themselves in the afterlife where they could only die again and again and be resurrected as though nothing had slipped out of place in the world. Some other things didn't - and in the end, it was their choice what they chose.

War has a way of dragging to the front what peace can never manage.

[Tatarigoroshi-hen] Reporters and detectives alike chase the only clue left after the Hinamizawa Disaster: Keiichi Maebara.

Once Satoshi is rediscovered, there's no empty spot for Keiichi to have slotted into anymore. Except there's not really a such thing as slotting into space, and Satoshi and Keiichi both need to find their place in Hinamizawa, and with each other.

[post-movie] Just what is communication? And understanding? And what role did his emotions and the past play in it all, and in the dialogues fast approaching?

When the Maebaras left Himazawa, they took with them their son's dead body and parasites in their mind.

Roy had a lot of dreams. They started crumbling one by one, starting with becoming a State Alchemist at twenty-three, only to be assigned to the youngest State Alchemist in history.

[AT] It would have been a very different act if most characters had gotten to see just a little more of the stage. Ein bears witness to Crank's duel with Mikazuki. Gaelio witnesses the corruption in Gjallarhorn before his final fight. Knowledge makes it harder for the knowledgeable to pull the strings of the ignorant. Other wills still need to be fought to be overcome.

[Onisarashi] If I tell you I remember or you cease your lie that acquits me, then the gallows fall...

Misa thinks Light is perfect. Light has a very different opinion of her.