Sword Art Online Quotes

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We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on." —Kazuto Kirigaya "Kirito" (Sword Art Online)
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 2: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 2: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #2))
There's no one who can't fight! There are only those who give up on fighting!
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 6: ファントム・バレット [Sōdo āto onrain 6: Fantomu Baretto] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))
To me, you'll always be like a bright star that shines and guides me from the opposite end of a dark alley. Good-bye, Kirito. It was really fortunate of me to have met you and to have been with you. — Sachi
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 2: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 2: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #2))
This maybe a game, but it isn't meant to be played
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 1: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 1: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1))
Not all shooting stars burned up in the atmosphere. Some of them withstood the fires and made their way to earth.
Reki Kawahara
Long ago, in a big castle floating in the clouds, a boy who dreamed of being a warrior and a girl who loved to cook met and fell in love. Those two are gone, but after a long, long journey, their hearts met again.
Kawahara, Reki
life should be something that can hold and pass a person’s thoughts - Asuna
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン7: マザーズ・ロザリオ (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #7))
The warmth of our bodies began to melt my frozen heart bit by bit.
Kirito
Itching to play a video game inside a video game?
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 1: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 1: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1))
I couldn't help but remember a similar moment, another view of infinite sunset as I sat side by side with Asuna, watching the end of Aincrad. Her voice echoed in my ears: We'll always be together.
Kawahara, Reki
I wonder why looking at that causes sleepiness... Maybe it's the illusion-type magic that Spriggans are good at or something.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン7: マザーズ・ロザリオ (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #7))
An impossibly huge castle of rock and iron, floating in an endless expanse of sky. That is the entirety of this world.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 1: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 1: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1))
Love isn't something you seek. It's something you give.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン14:アリシゼーション・ユナイティング [Sōdo āto onrain 14: Arishizēshon Yunaitingu] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #14))
Her face was shrouded in shadows, but I knew who it was. I'd never mistake her. The magnetism of our souls was so strong it was practically visible, sparking with light in the space that separated us.
Kawahara, Reki
I can’t just sit back and watch someone die. I’d rather die alongside them than do nothing.”- Kirito
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 1: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 1: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1))
If I can only be my true self in the virtual world . . . then what was the point of coming back to reality after all?
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online: Mother's Rosario, Vol. 1 (Sword Art Online: Mother's Rosario Manga, #1))
There are some things you can't get across without confronting them.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン7: マザーズ・ロザリオ (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #7))
Blind obedience is not the same as loyalty.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン12: アリシゼーション・ライジング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #12))
You can't do anything. You will be defeated here by me, on the ground helplessly while I kill this girl, being able only to watch.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 6: ファントム・バレット [Sōdo āto onrain 6: Fantomu Baretto] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))
I am now certain that you were exactly the person we were hoping to find.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン7: マザーズ・ロザリオ (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #7))
She closed her eyes and lowered her head, feeling like a knight taking a knee and pledging her sword to a far superior warrior.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン7: マザーズ・ロザリオ (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #7))
Hang in there, Kirito. Keep trying, for the sake of what you believe in. I'll always be at your side. I'll always be behind you, watching your back and supporting you.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 6: ファントム・バレット [Sōdo āto onrain 6: Fantomu Baretto] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))
This body will fall only when my heart fall. If so, I can stand forever. (Asuna)
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 17: アリシゼーション・アウェイクニング [Sōdo āto onrain 17: Arishizēshon Aueikingu] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #17))
Private school girls are scary.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ 6 [Sōdoāto Onrain Puroguresshibu 6] (Sword Art Online: Progressive Manga, #6))
You're free to underestimate me all you want.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ 6 [Sōdoāto Onrain Puroguresshibu 6] (Sword Art Online: Progressive Manga, #6))
......This is real power, real strength! Foolish humans, etch my name with fear! Me and, the name of this gun is <>......<>!!
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 5: ファントム・バレット [Sōdo āto onrain 5: Fantomu Baretto] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #5))
Never. I will never let anyone in my party die as long as i'm standing. That's the last thing I'd let happen" - kirito
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 1: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 1: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1))
I've had just one goal. I wanted to get to the 22nd floor before anyone else . . . so I could buy a certain player house, a log cabin deep in a thick forest.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online: Mother's Rosario, Vol. 1 (Sword Art Online: Mother's Rosario Manga, #1))
I have a feeling that he lives somewhere apart from reality, just not in the same way I do.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン7: マザーズ・ロザリオ (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #7))
What is the difference between the real world and the virtual world?" " Only the amount of information.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet Vol. 1)
Kirito . . . teach me how to use a sword.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン9: アリシゼーション・ビギニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #9))
As long as they had the swords of fate that had brought them to this point, they would never falter.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 10 (light novel): Alicization Running)
If I said I was going to the Dark Territory, would you come with me . . . ?
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン12: アリシゼーション・ライジング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #12))
Christ! Haven’t any of you rewatched The Matrix lately? Or Sword Art Online?
Ernest Cline (Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2))
There is one thing I’ve learned here. To keep doing your best, up until the very end. If we make it back to the real world, I’ll find you again. And fall in love with you again. – Asuna
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 1: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 1: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1))
العامين التي قضيتهم في SAO علمتني شيئا اخر بانه ليس هناك اختلاف ذو معني بين الواقع الافتراضي والحقيقي انه غير مجدي ان تسال اي شخص منهم عن هويته الحقيقيه كل ما استطيع فعله هوه تقبلهم والوثوق بهم لانهم مهما كانو في عقلك فا تلك هي هويتهم الحقيقيه كيريتو Sword Art Online
Sword Art Online
If you couldn't handle someone who did the impossible, the improbable, the implausible, then you couldn't handle the VRMMO player known as Kirito.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン7: マザーズ・ロザリオ (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #7))
This sorrowful world... envelop it as gently as the night sky. -- Eugeo
Reki Kawahara
SJ3
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, Vol. 5 (light novel): 3rd Squad Jam: Betrayers' Choice: Finish (Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online (light novel)))
It will be all right, Kirito. I will always be watching your back. We're the greatest forward and backup in the world.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン9: アリシゼーション・ビギニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #9))
In that instant, a powerful drive overtook her. The next time, she would protect him. Not just that time, but every time. In any world.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン9: アリシゼーション・ビギニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #9))
You've got a real headache of a boyfriend, kid.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 10 (light novel): Alicization Running)
Once the sword was in my grasp, I had no choice but to wield it with all my life and spirit. That was how I had lived in every virtual world to this point.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 10 (light novel): Alicization Running)
Most of all, I fought for Asuna, Sugu, Klein, Liz, Sinon, Agil, Silica, and all the others who waited for my return to the real world.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 10 (light novel): Alicization Running)
You'll never meet a guy who avoids recklessness and abandon like I do.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 10 (light novel): Alicization Running)
You'll come back . . . won't you, Kirito?
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 10 (light novel): Alicization Running)
This is my story now.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online Progressive Manga, Vol. 5)
What matters is that we survive.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online Progressive Manga, Vol. 5)
Before she joined the KoB, near the very start of the game of death, she walked with a solo player dressed all in black.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン11: アリシゼーション・ターニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #11))
Before she left, she looked at the STL room and mouthed the words I'll be back.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン11: アリシゼーション・ターニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #11))
My motto is "Impossible, improbable, inadvisable.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン11: アリシゼーション・ターニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #11))
Could this girl here be the personification of the very same . . .
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン11: アリシゼーション・ターニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #11))
That ominous sound heralded a new storm along the path that should have been near its end - a storm greater than any we had yet encountered.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン11: アリシゼーション・ターニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #11))
It sounded like he had engaged in real, actual battles against swordswomen and lost . . .
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン12: アリシゼーション・ライジング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #12))
In order to keep your head about you and apply the teachings of the Aincrad style, it was essential to keep its secret motto in mind: "stay cool.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン12: アリシゼーション・ライジング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #12))
As far as weapons go, I like maces. There's something enticing about a good bludgeon.
abec (Sword Art Online abec Art Works)
Love is stronger than guild regulations, as they say.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ 4 [Sōdo Āto Onrain Puroguresshibu 4] (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #4))
Until we meet again, Blackie . . .
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ 4 [Sōdo Āto Onrain Puroguresshibu 4] (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #4))
No matter how much I might dislike it, Kirito the Black Swordsman was a part of me, had helped shape who I was now, and was giving me strength.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン14:アリシゼーション・ユナイティング [Sōdo āto onrain 14: Arishizēshon Yunaitingu] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #14))
I was nothing if not Kirito the Black Swordsman.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン14:アリシゼーション・ユナイティング [Sōdo āto onrain 14: Arishizēshon Yunaitingu] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #14))
Our paths separate here . . . but our memories remain eternal. I will continue to live within you.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン14:アリシゼーション・ユナイティング [Sōdo āto onrain 14: Arishizēshon Yunaitingu] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #14))
How can he stay so calm in these circumstances? No . . . it's not being calm. He's going all out. He's not making excuses. He's choosing to use every ounce of ability he has to fight. That's his strength.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet, Vol. 3 (Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet Manga, #3))
Asuna imagined the light that made up their souls trading infinite information. She knew for certain that no matter what world, no matter how long they traveled, their hearts would never be apart. In fact, their hearts had been connected long ago. Since the moment they disappeared in a rainbow aurora above the collapse of Aincrad, or perhaps even before that - as lonely solo players who met deep in a dark labyrinth.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン9: アリシゼーション・ビギニング (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #9))
The game of death began on November 6, 2022. It was now late October 2024. Almost two years later, there was still no sign of rescue, no messages from outside. All we could do was survive day by day, getting closer to the top, one step at a time.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (light novel))
Big Brother would never let himself fall from wounds like this. So I won’t fall, either. There are only three thousand of them; I’ll cut them all down myself. Because I’m his…I’m Kirito the Black Swordsman’s “—Little sisterrrrr!!
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 17 (light novel): Alicization Awakening)
want to enter an electrical engineering program at a Japanese school…preferably Tohto Industrial College. Then after that, I’d like to get a job with Ra…with the Oceanic Resource Exploration & Research Institution.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 18 (light novel): Alicization Lasting)
Eventually, I began looking forward to each new morning. When I realized I was in love with him, I was filled with such joy. I wanted to treasure that feeling. For the first time, I felt glad that I was here...
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online - Aincrad 1 (light novel) (J-POP Romanzi))
Don’t follow me.” “B-but I don’t know what to do after this…” “Don’t follow me.” “B-but I don’t know anyone else here…” “Don’t follow me.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 5: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #5))
Captain, I’ve got something on the bow sonar!” said one of the techs, pulling Ziliani out of the memory. “It’s a nuclear turbine. Identifying now…Match. That’s the megafloat, sir. Distance to target: fifteen miles.” He snapped back to attention. He was in the command center and needed to give orders. “Maintain depth. Speed one-five knots.” The helm repeated his order, and then there was a brief sensation of deceleration. “Do we know where the Aegis defense ship is located?” “Gas turbine–engine signal at forty-three miles southwest of target…Match. JMSDF Nagato.” Ziliani stared at the two dots on the large display screen.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 15: Alicization Invading)
The core of Rath was a group of young SDF officers who had little political power. The NSA made use of that, sending a CIA agent with the embassy’s office to make a deal with a high-ranking minister of the Maritime SDF. The Nagato defense ship for Rath’s de facto headquarters, the Ocean Turtle, would stand down for twenty-four hours
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 15: Alicization Invading)
That is because your permission is unnecessary for me to meet with him. And really, now that I think about it, if you wanted a man to beat you senseless, you always could have asked Uncle to do it.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 15: Alicization Invading)
In the real world, the Ocean Turtle, where Asuna and others are located, is under attack, and most ominous of all, Kikuoka changed from a yukata into a Hawaiian shirt…
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 15: Alicization Invading)
The thing about human beings is, we learn.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン 1: アインクラッド [Sōdo āto onrain 1: Ainkuraddo] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1))
I grinned and asked, “But doesn’t that rule hurt a sniper? Isn’t it your job to hide in the bushes like a potato with your rifle held still?” “Enough about potatoes,” she snapped, tossing navy-blue sparks in my direction
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 6: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))
gun with a suppressor, but…” “Sapresser?” She glared at Kirito, wondering how many things she needed to teach the idiot before all was said and done, then gave in and explained, “It’s a noise canceler that goes on the end of the gun to keep it from being too loud.” “Ohh…a silencer, you mean.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 6: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))
I’m surprised they figured out it was you, even with the same name. Even if they were your old friends.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 6: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))
I attended a signing event in Akihabara called the “Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival 2010” with my illustrator, abec. And yes…I showed up late! Extremely late! Thirty minutes after the event began! Due to a data block malfunction in my brain, I processed “12:30” as “2:30”! From what I understand, in the four-thousand-year history of Dengeki Bunko, I was the first writer to ever show up late to his own autograph signing.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 6: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))
As for Yui, she was nearly to the top of the slope winding around the edge of the dome. Even I would have a hard time sprinting up the narrow ledge without a handhold of any kind. But Yui was pulling it off with aplomb—not because she was an AI but because we had raised her to have a real heart and real courage.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
It ain’t Katana.” “Huh?” “I inherited Pursuit.” “Huh?!” we shouted together.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
If he didn’t carry over Katana, then he must have also maxed out Pursuit… “Why would you be so advanced in a skill like that?” Lisbeth asked, exasperated. Then she realized something and cried, “Oh! Unless you were using it to track and follow cute girls! You creep!
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
My name is Kazuto Kirigaya, and I was born on October 7th, 2008…as far as I know.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 21 (light novel): Unital Ring I)
I’m trusting in your good luck, Kirito!” Asuna shouted. Well, I had no trust in that luck.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 21 (light novel): Unital Ring I)
Especially now that we have our helpful lumberjack with us.” Leafa spun around, incensed. “Excuse me, Kirito! Are you referring to me?! All I have is this sword!” “And it’ll do. When I was in the Underworld, I cut down a tree that couldn’t be cut down for a thousand years, and that was with a single longswo—” “Okay, okay, I’ll do it,” she interrupted so that she wouldn’t have to listen to me brag.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 21 (light novel): Unital Ring I)
Asuna asked if that was going to have a negative effect on her exams, but Shikimi was planning to go to college overseas and had already received a diploma from the International Baccalaureate and an official SAT score report.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
Um…how do I say delicious in your language?” she asked the elderly birdman. He made a sound like hyufol. She turned to the child and repeated the word the birdman had just taught her. The child looked befuddled. “No. It is hyufol.” “Hyufol.” “Close. Hyufol.” “Hyufol!
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
Um, how do you say knife in Ornith?” “Hmm? You mean fetu?” “Fetu.” “No, fetu.” “Fetu.” “Listen to me. It is fetu.” “I am saying fetu!” Sinon snapped,
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
Our valiant little torch couldn’t withstand this and finally went out, plunging us into darkness. Hard pellets lashed my exposed face and hands. It was ice…hail. Oh, hail no! I thought, although I didn’t think anyone would have appreciated the wordplay
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
The current situation in Unital Ring was the biggest emergency in the VR gaming world since the SAO Incident in 2022,
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 23 (light novel): Unital Ring II)
I’d defeated the ultra-hard thornspike cave bear by using the rare Rolling Logs Off the Roof to Crush It stat,
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 21 (light novel): Unital Ring I)
Make contact’? Let’s be honest, Mr. Kikuoka. You want me to go and get shot by this Death Gun.” “Ha-ha-ha, well, when you put it that way…” “No! What if something happens to me? Why don’t you get shot? See how you like having your heart stopped.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 5: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #5))
Male, age thirty-one. Another influential player in GGO. His character name was…Usujio Tarako? ‘Lightly Salted Cod Roe’? Is that right?” “There was a guy in SAO named Hokkai Ikura, meaning ‘North Sea Salmon Roe,’ so maybe he was a relative.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 5: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #5))
It is pointless to question who someone really is. All you can do is believe and accept. Because the way you perceive someone is their true identity.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 001 : Aincrad (Sword Art Online Omnibus, #1))
Stacia
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 16 (light novel): Alicization Exploding)
we have a responsibility to them.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad (light novel))
Get stronger. Until one day…you can tell me, and other frightened people like me, that it’ll be okay.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online: Progressive, Vol. 3 (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #3))
I have nothing more to say to you. Let's fight - that's why you're here, isn't it?
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン13:アリシゼーション・ディバイディング [Sōdo āto onrain 13:Arishizēshon Dibaidingu] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #13))
You must be within my sight for all twenty-four hours. Is that understood?!
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online: Progressive, Vol. 5 (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novels #5))
Another influential player in GGO. His character name was…Usujio Tarako? ‘Lightly Salted Cod Roe’? Is that right?” “There was a guy in SAO named Hokkai Ikura, meaning ‘North Sea Salmon Roe,’ so maybe he was a relative.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 5: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #5))
I'll let your blood and screams round out this confrontation.
Reki Kawahara (ソードアート・オンライン14:アリシゼーション・ユナイティング [Sōdo āto onrain 14: Arishizēshon Yunaitingu] (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #14))
You’ve always been here with me. Not just in Sinon’s arms…but by Shino’s side as well. Even when I couldn’t see you, you’ve been there, encouraging me. Please…I am weak. Give me your strength. The strength to stand, and walk again.
Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online, Vol. 6: Phantom Bullet (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #6))