"Have you ever realized how insignificant…" — Haruhi Suzumiya Quote

"Actually... Ponytails turn me on... that ponytail you had back then, it looked so good it was criminal!"

— Kyon · The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"If there's really that many people in the world, then there had to be someone who wasn't ordinary. There had to be someone who was living an interesting life. There just had to be. Why wasn't I that person?"

— Haruhi Suzumiya · The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"I thought that everyone in Japan had to be packed in there. So I turned to my dad and asked him,"Do you know how many people are here right now"? He said probably fifty thousand, since the stadium was full. I was only one little person in that big crowded stadium filled with people, and there were so many people there, but it was just a handful out of the entire population. Up till then, I always thought that I was, I don't know, kind of a special person. It was fun to be with my family. I had fun with my classmates. And the school that I was going to, it had just about the most interesting people anywhere. But that night, I realized it wasn't true. All the stuff we did during class that I thought was so fun and cool, was probably happening just like that in classes in other schools all over Japan. There was nothing special about my school at all."

— Haruhi Suzumiya · The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"Anyone accepting defeat will be punished by running ten laps around the school, naked! And you'll have to yell "Green Martians are chasing me!" for the whole ten laps!"

— Haruhi Suzumiya · The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"However, as always, this girl was thinking up all sorts of nonsensical stuff. I can't help but wonder if there's a black hole inside her head, since her common sense seems to come from a different universe altogether."

— Kyon · The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"You can't do anything about what doesn't exist. In the end, humans have to settle for what's in front of them."

— Kyon · The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya