Nana Quotes

Being alone and being lonely are two different things.

But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.

Don't just give up, Hachiko.
Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time.
If you keep getting up, you win.

People are only what they think of themselves.

Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.

Hey, Nana...
people's feelings change easily...
what you see is a house of cards...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever.

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.

I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.

What people consider precious is different for everybody.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?
Humans are full of contradictions.

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.

The things that stress me out haven't changed.
But I don't wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.

We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again...

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone

I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
---Yasu

I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart...Straightforward, unwavering...It seems like such a simple thing, so then why.......Must it be so incredibly hard?

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings..

So you have to accept facts as fact.

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. 

Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.

Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse.

You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.

People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.

The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.

Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone...

I have the right to be hated.(Takumi)

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.

You know Hachi, your life depends only on ourselves. I’m still convinced about this… But I’ve also learned to accept that people… don’t all become as strong, and it made me kinder than before.

When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night...

Pops: Plans for the future?
Justin: Not sure yet.
Pops: Well, why not? You don't got much longer in school, boy. Now's the time to figure things out, not later. Didn't anyone ever tel you that you can't spell later without the word late?
Justin: I promise you, I'm doing my best to figure things out.
Pops: "Doing my best" is a phrase failures use. Why don't you buy a man card and finish figuring?
Me: Pops! That's so rude. Justin, I'm so sorry.
Pops: What? How is a valid question rude? But all right, fine, I'll move on since baby boy can't take the heat. How about you finish this sentence for me, Jason? When a girl says no, she means...
Justin, looking desperately at me: No?
Nana: Are you not sure?
Justin, shifting uncomfortably: I'm sure. No means no.
Nana: Well, look at you. You got no right. Now here's another, even tougher sentence for you to finish. Premarital sex is...
Me: Nana! I'm so sorry, Justin.
Nana: Unlike Pops, I'm not moving on, Justin?
Pops: His name is Jason.
Justin: Uh...uh...
Pops: While you think about that, why don't you tell me how you feel about drinking and driving?
Justin: I'm totatlly against it, I swear!
Nana: Methinks he protests too much.

It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?

The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.

Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.

I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who’s too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi

Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness?
Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden?
I wans't intending to monopolizing you
I just wanted you to need me.

Trapnest means The Trapped Den Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other. 

You laugh at love... but love will make you cry.
- Yasu