Koya Quotes

Look at the things he’s done. It’s clear how hard he’s trying to be a good man.” “Exactly,” Koya said. “Good men don’t have to try.

Her şey düşüncenin verdiği biçimi alır. Ve düşüncenizin kontrolü sizin elinizdedir. Dolayısıyla yargılarınızı ortadan kaldırmaya karar verdiğinizde huzura kavuşursunuz. Tıpkı, burnu dolaşan bir denizcinin sakin suya, dalgasız bir koya erişmesi gibi.

This is an important opportunity, son, but while I know you admire Mr Asano, do not lose sight of how dangerous he is.” “We are all dangerous, Father. We have all slain many monsters.” “That’s not what I mean. You need not fear the man who kills, for all you need to do is be better. Fear the man who kills, then smiles and laughs like it is any other day. There is no line such a man will not cross, whatever he might tell you. Or tell himself.” “I don’t think he’s like that,” Itsuki said. “Look at the things he’s done. It’s clear how hard he’s trying to be a good man.” “Exactly,” Koya said. “Good men don’t have to try.

There was Asuka, birthplace of Yamato Japan, with its long-vacant burial mounds, surfaces carved with supernatural images of beasts and semi-humans, their makers and their meaning lost in the timeless swaying of the rice paddies around them; Koya-san, the holy mountain, reputedly the resting place of Kobo Daishi, Japan’s great saint, who is said to linger near the mountain’s vast necropolis not dead but meditating, his vigil marked by the mantras of monks that drone among the nearby markers of the dead as ancient and eternal as summer insects in primordial groves;

I am patient with myself and others as truth and love reveal themselves through me daily.

Parish loved the thoughtful gesture, but he knew more than anything that Koya bringing another girl into the bedroom was for her pleasure more than his. She wasn’t slick.

Small-minded men had large opinions that left no mental room for any ideas but their own.