Nana Anime Quotes

In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)

Tell me, Satoru. What's out there beyond this field? A lot of wonderful things, I'm thinking. I wonder if I'll be able to go on a trip with you again. Satoru grins, and picks me up, so I can see the far-off-horizon from his eye level. Ah - we saw so many things, didn't we?

She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those monsters of ancient times whose fearful domains were covered with skeletons, she rested her feet on human skulls and was surrounded by catastrophes...The fly that had come from the dungheap of the slums, carrying the ferment of social decay, had poisoned all these men simply by alighting on them. It was fitting and just. She had avenged the beggars and outcasts of her world. And while, as it were, her sex rose in a halo of glory and blazed down on her prostrate victims like a rising sun shining down on a field of carnage, she remained as unconscious of her actions as a splendid animal, ignorant of the havoc she had wreaked, and as good-natured as ever.

Anytime I talk about my work informally, I inevitably encounter someone who wants to know why addicts become addicts. They use words like “will” and “choice,” and they end by saying, “Don’t you think there’s more to it than the brain?” They are skeptical of the rhetoric of addiction as disease, something akin to high blood pressure or diabetes, and I get that. What they’re really saying is that they may have partied in high school and college but look at them now. Look how strong-willed they are, how many good choices they’ve made. They want reassurances. They want to believe that they have been loved enough and have raised their children well enough that the things that I research will never, ever touch their own lives. I understand this impulse. I, too, have spent years creating my little moat of good deeds in an attempt to protect the castle of myself. I don’t want to be dismissed the way that Nana was once dismissed. I know that it’s easier to say Their kind does seem to have a taste for drugs, easier to write all addicts off as bad and weak-willed people, than it is to look closely at the nature of their suffering. I do it too, sometimes. I judge. I walk around with my chest puffed out, making sure hat everyone knows about my Harvard and Stanford degrees, as if those things encapsulate me, and when I do so, I give in to the same facile, lazy thinking that characterizes those who think of addicts as horrible people. It’s just that I’m standing on the other side of the moat. What I can say for certain is that there is no case study in the world that could capture the whole animal of my brother, that could show how smart and kind and generous he was, how much he wanted to get better, how much he wanted to live. Forget for a moment what he looked like on paper, and instead see him as he was in all of his glory, in all of his beauty. It’s true that for years before he died, I would look at his face and think, What a pity, what a waste. But the waste was my own, the waste was what I missed out on whenever I looked at him and saw just his addiction.

No other animal in the world would try to defy the laws of nature, but humans are a very peculiar species.” – Nana.

To the Sumerians the Divine was Queen Nana, to the Romans “Anna Perenna.” She is Al-Uzza of Mecca, Artemis of Ephesus, Anatis of Egypt, Eurynome of Africa, Coatlique of the Aztecs, Kunapipi of Australia. She is Rhea, Tellus, Ceres, Hera. The Female Metaphor has been known in innumerable ways and by innumerable names as humans tried to express their perception of the Great Mystery. She encompassed All. She has been present throughout the millennia in the myths, rituals, religions and poetry of humanity. She has been loved and revered. Before She appeared in human form, there were stones, trees, pools, fruits and animals that She either lived in or were identified with Her or parts of Her. For many peoples the stones and rocks were Her bones, the vegetation Her hair. Poppies and pomegranates and other such many-seeded flora identified Her fertility and abundance. Grain/food could represent Her. The earth itself was understood as Her belly, the mountains as places of refuge, caves providing shelter for the unborn and the dead. Primal peoples everywhere at some time understood Earth Herself as Divine One, Deity – Mother. They languaged this in different ways. The pre-Celtic indigenous Europeans named Her – the Land – as Lady Sovereignty. In South-East Asia, where She has been known as Mago, Earth is Her Stronghold, the primordial home. In Greece and in the West, She has been known as Gaia.

How come Fred has a donkey and a garbage truck? That’s very weird,” said Nana. “Fred is a vet. A vet is an animal doctor, Basil,” explained Unkie Herb. “He also has a farm where he takes care of animals, like Puddles, that are hurt or have no home. He needs a garbage truck to keep his farm clean because animals are very messy. Basil and I always give him money to help him buy food or medicine for the animals.” “Gosh, that’s really cool!” said Grandma. “How wonderful,” said Mom. “Wow,” said Dad. “What a kind man.” “Yep,” said Unkie Herb. “Not weird at all.

I, too, have spent years creating my little moat of good deeds in an attempt to protect the castle of myself. I don't want to be dismissed the way that Nana was once dismissed. I know it's easier to say Their kind does seem to have a taste for drugs, easier to write all addicts off as bad and weak-willed people, than it is to look closely at the nature of their suffering. I do it too, sometimes. I judge. I walk around with my chest puffed out, making sure that everyone knows about my Harvard and Stanford degrees, as if those things encapsulate me, and when I do so, I give into the same facile, lazy thinking that characterizes those who think of addicts as horrible people. It's just that I'm standing on the other side of the moat. What I can say for certain is that there is no case study in the world that could capture the whole animal of my brother, that could show how smart and kind and generous he was, how much he wanted to get better, how much he wanted to live. Forget for a moment what he looked like on paper, and instead see him as he was in all of his glory, in all of his beauty. It's true that for years before he died, I would look at his face and think, What a pity, what a waste. But the waste was my own, the waste was what I missed out on whenever I looked at him and saw just his addiction.

Abby,” Robin says, plopping down on the cushion next to Penny, “where did you get Prince? An animal shelter or a breeder?” Nope and nope. “We got him as a present,” I say. Which is kind of true. But Robin would never believe the real truth. I got Prince when my brother and I went into a fairy tale. I know it sounds totally bonkers, but there’s a magic mirror in the basement of my house. And a fairy, Maryrose, is trapped inside it. She takes me and my younger brother, Jonah, through the mirror into different fairy tales. Like Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Beauty and the Beast. I think one day she’s planning to bring us into the story that trapped her so that we can help set her free. Anyway, when Jonah and I fell into the story of Sleeping Beauty, we got Prince as a gift. And then we took him home with us, because he is adorable. Of course, we had to make up a whole story for our parents because they don’t know about Maryrose, the mirror, or the whole traveling-to-fairy-tales thing. My nana does, though. She actually went into Little Red Riding Hood with us.

When you teach kindness to animals, you teach reverence for life in general. The youngster who is taught concern for animals will grow up being kind to his fellow man. It follows, too, that he will not become callous to widespread suffering in any form.” Bernard Beck

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.” Oscar Wilde

Mahatma Gandhi   Patricia Van Winkle:  I understand you were a passionate vegetarian.   Mahatma Gandhi:  Being an Indian and vegetarian is not a big a deal.  There must be a gazillion of us.  Of course most of us have a loving respect for all animals.  And many of us believe in reincarnation.  You never know -- that cow I see on the street could have been my Grandma Nana in another lifetime.  So when I saw someone eating meat, I’d get extremely pissed off and just want to punch their lights out.  Then I’d tell myself “Chill, Mohandas.  You’re supposed to be a non-violent pacifist.

She once told the entire class that her dog, one of those little living-accessory dogs that spends most of its life in a pleather handbag, hung itself by slipping through the beams of her deck after securing the other end of the leash beneath one of the patio chairs. She said it was proof that even animals could think and feel. I think she wanted us to become vegetarians.

It ain't my idea to leave before dawn. My ole lady decided to visit Nana, that's why the house stinks of hairspray. You know why she's leaving early: so nobody sees her scurry through town on foot. All she wants is for them to see her arrived, all hunky-dory. Not scurrying. It's a learning I made since the car went. 'Well I just can't believe there isn't a pair of Tumbledowns around town, I mean, I'll have to try down by Nana's.' She gives off breathy noises, and flicks her fingertips through my hair. Then she takes a step back and frowns. It means goodbye. 'Promise me you won't miss your therapy.' An electric purple sky spills stars behind the pumpjack, calling home the last moths for the night. It reminds me of the morning when ole Mrs Lechuga was out here, all devastated. I try not to think about it. Instead I look ahead to today. Going to Keeter's is a smart idea; if anybody sees me out there, they'll say, 'We saw Vernon out by Keeter's,' and nobody will know if they mean the auto shop, or the piece of land. See? Vernon Gray-matter Little. In return, I've asked Fate to help me solve the cash thing. It's become clear that cash is the only way to deal with problems in life. I even scraped up a few things to pawn in town, if it comes to that. I know it'll come to that, so I have them with me in my pack – my clarinet, my skateboard, and fourteen music discs. They're in the pack with my lunchbox, which contains my sandwich, the two joints, and a piece of paper with some internet addresses on it. As for the joints and the piece of paper, I heard the voice of Jesus last night. He advised me to get wasted, fast. If at first you don't succeed, he said, get wasted off your fucken ass. My plan is to sit out at Keeter's and get some new ideas, ideas borne out of the bravery of wastedness. I ride down empty roads of frosted silver, trees overhead swish cool hints of warm panties in bedclothes. Liberty Drive is naked, save for droppings of hay, and Bar-B-Chew Barn wrappers. In this light you can't see the stains on the sidewalk by the school. As the gym building passes by, all hulky and black, I look the other way, and think of other things. Music's a crazy thing, when you think about it. Interesting how I decided which discs not to pawn. I could've kept some party music, but that would've just tried to boost me up, all this thin kind of 'Tss-tss-tss,' music. You get all boosted up, convinced you're going to win in life, then the song's over and you discover you fucken lost. That's why you end up playing those songs over and over, in case you didn't know. Cream pie, boy. I could've kept back some heavy metal too, but that's likely to drive me to fucken suicide. What I need is some Eminem, some angry poetry, but you can't buy that stuff in Martirio. Like it was an animal sex doll or something, you can't buy angry poetry. When you say gangsta around here, they still think of Bonnie & fucken Clyde. Nah, guess what: I ended up keeping my ole Country albums. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck – even my daddy's ole Hank Williams compilation. I kept them because those boys have seen some shit – hell, all they sing about is the shit they've seen; you just know they woke up plenty of times on a wooden floor somewhere, with ninety flavors of trouble riding on their ass. The slide-guitar understands your trouble. Then all you need is the beer.

(...) leur lénifier l'esprit et en même temps le rendre plus rapide, paradoxalement, plus prompt aux raisonnements ou aux souvenirs, comme s'ils avaient gagné, non en concentration, mais en intelligence, une sensation que tous les deux connaissaient bien, et que tous les deux, retranchés dans leur tête ou dans leurs souvenirs le temps que dura le chemin jusqu'à l'étang et la cabane, savaient précaire, momentanée, en équilibre, en ce sens qu'ils savaient qu'il existe dans l'ivresse un point précis d'intelligence et de lucidité où les connexions se font plus vives, où les neurones sont stimulés et les synapses fusent, le temps du pic, avant de retomber inévitablement vers leur stade initial, puis vers un stade encore plus bas, pour finir con, complètement con, et ivre, bourré, pété, totalement schlass, comme si c'était là le revers de la médaille, comme si gagner cette forme d'agilité de l'esprit se payait forcément, et qu'il fût tout naturel de retomber encore plus bas ; mais pour l'instant leur cerveau était vif, Max repensait à sa rencontre, ou plutôt à sa vision de la veille, à l'effroyable et merveilleux tatouage de cette jeune femme, et il pensa comprendre exactement pourquoi elle s'était fait tatouer un truc pareil, ou du moins comprit-il, par ce tatouage, cette jeune femme était, il comprit que cette fresque le long de son bras gauche de son épaule et de sa clavicule était le signe d'une sensibilité et d'une force extrêmes, à fleur de mais en même temps d'une peur, une et une force sensibles et radicales, oui, car comment inscrire dans sa chair, à vie, à vif, autant d'horreur et de beauté sinon par sensibilité et radicalité, ce devait être une sacrée nana, "il faut que je retourne au Club Z, la revoir au moins une fois", et ce même s'il savait n'avoir pas l'ombre d'une chance avec cette fille, qu'il ne saurait toujours pas comment faire pour l'accoster, il me faut une astuce, un truc pour briser la glace et lui parler la prochaine fois, pensa-t-il en marchant toujours sur ce sentier, échafaudant des plans les uns derrière les autres, titubant légèrement aux côtés de Théo, qui lui aussi était plongé dans les sillons de son ivresse, évitant une branche une ronce ou un tronc d'arbre en travers du chemin, se rappelant ses promenades en forêt, gamin, où il avait appris à reconnaître certaines plantes, certains champignons et certains arbres : les frênes et les bouleaux, les hêtres les chênes et quelques arbres fruitiers tels que noyers et cerisiers, pommiers et noisetiers, ensuite comment son père lui avait expliqué la manière de mouler l'empreinte d'un animal, avec un peu de plâtre le tour était joué, seulement Théo se rappela qu'ils ne l'avaient jamais fait, ils n'étaient jamais revenus avec la dose de plâtre requise pour mouler une empreinte, non, et puis plus tard il s'en allait marcher tout seul, vers ses combien ?, huit ou neuf ans, oui, c'était cela, putain il y a déjà dix ans, se dit Théo, et il se revit, les matins de vacances, chez son grand-père et sa grand-mère, dans la rosée et dans la brume bleutée, il se levait à l'aube et allait faire "le tour du bois", pendant une heure une heure et demie, avant de revenir quand tout le monde se réveillait, alors son père et lui allaient chercher pain couques et pistolets pour le petit déjeuner, et toujours ses retours du bois plongeaient Théo dans une sorte de tristesse ou de mélancolie qu'il ne comprenait pas, pourquoi revenait-il de ses balades mélancolique, il l'ignorait, mais s'ensuivaient inévitablement de longues après-midi très tristes, comme si un truc lui échappait, comme s'il avait cherché ou essayé de chercher quelque chose de caché, d'invisible, au fond de lui-même ou dans le bois d'où il était revenu, oui, comme s'il y avait quelque chose dans l'existence qu'il ne parvenait pas à trouver, une certaine cohérence, un sens, une signification, cela le remplissait de tristesse, il devait forcément y avoir un sens à tout cela (...)