"Maybe... just maybe, the light can reach…" — Kousei Arima Quote

"The more I concentrate, the more I get consumed by my performance. The sounds I play fade away from my reach, tangling up like flowers seized by the spring wind and vanish."

— Kousei Arima · Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso

"Defiance toward parents is an establishment of one's self"

— Hiroko Seto · Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso

"When you say you "can't hear the sound", doesn't it really mean you "aren't restrained by the sound"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts"

— Hiroko Seto · Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso

"You're like a cat. If I get close, you'll ignore me and go far away. If I get hurt, you'll play around to share the pain."

— Kousei Arima · Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso

"But I wasn't slacking at all. I practiced till I passed out. I gave my all. And if I still turned in a sloppy performance after all that, then... That's who I am now. It's the current me, playing with everything I've got."

— Kousei Arima · Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso

"A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... Called Love. I'm sure this is what they call love."

— Kousei Arima · Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso