"Pain isn't something you have to feel, i…" — Mikiya Kokutō Quote

"It wasn't the pain that hurt me. Rather, it was the feeling of me being ripped apart, and the sound of the knife plunging deep, deep into my heart. That incomparably bittersweet fear. My body shook and trembled at the thought of it. My silent weeping contained my uneasiness, my loneliness, my will to live. My tears aren't from the pain either, or from the fear of the encounter. It was for the brush of death that I had never before experienced, but had now fallen in love with, even though I pray every night for the strength to live. Please remember this. If we continue suspecting each other continue pursuing our own self-interests... who do you think will be left standing in the ring in the end? There won't be anybody there ladies and gentlemen. Not you not me... Not even the ring itself."

— Fujou Kirie · The Garden of Sinners

"People do not cease to exist immediately after dying, as long as there are people who remember them."

— Aozaki Touko · The Garden of Sinners

"A writer once said that "a designer knows he has achieved perfection not when he has nothing left to add, but when he has nothing left to take away"."

— Aozaki Touko · The Garden of Sinners

"The flash of light I felt when I was stabbed in the heart. The overwhelming torrent of death and the beat of life. I always thought I had nothing, but there is still that simple thing left in me. This fear that sends a chill down my spine. I have to feel the most death I can to feel the happiness of life. For everything in my life I have ignored until now. But it probably would be impossible to die like I did that night. I probably cannot hope for such a striking end. That death pierced me like lightning, like a needle, like a sword. That's why I will try to come as close to that as possible. I don't have any idea right now but I still have a few days to think about it. And I've already decided on the method. I don't think I even need to say this, but I think my end should be a long fall from a place overlooking the world."

— Fujou Kirie · The Garden of Sinners

"I can kill anything that exists - even if it's a god."

— Ryougi Shiki · The Garden of Sinners

"A terrible premonition can bring about a terrible reality."

— Ryougi Shiki · The Garden of Sinners