‘‘my biggest enemy is the anger inside me’’

• moonlight

‘‘changes are fated to happen to everyone, perhaps, how we change is what our undertaking is about’’

• moonlight

‘‘there would be no eternity for anything, being called immortal is fucking overwhelming, i started just because i liked music, but the adjectives they attach to my name feel too much sometimes’’

• moonlight

‘‘calling me a dog, it doesn’t make sense. i was born a tiger, i’m not weak like you at least’’

• daechwita

‘‘who’s the king? who’s the boss? everyone knows my name. these bastards who are all talk, cut his head off immediately’’

• daechwita

‘‘whatever you think, i’m sorry but i don’t fucking care at all ’’

• what do you think?

‘‘thinking that my success has anything to do with your failure, you’re fucking great at being delusional’’

• what do you think?

‘‘the ten zeros in my bank account, it’s the money i loaned with my youth as collateral’’

• what do you think?

‘‘we’ll go serve in the military when the time comes, i hope all those bastards who tried to get a free ride by selling our names shut their mouths up’’

• what do you think?

‘‘polarization, the ugliest flower in the world, it’s been a long while since truth got eaten away by lies, who would it be that benefits the most? who would it be that gets harmed the most?’’

• strange

‘‘a big system that’s called the world, they insert conflicts, wars, or survivals, life you can’t reject. capital injects morphine called hope with dream as collateral’’

• strange

‘‘the one who isn’t sick in the world that is sick gets treated as a mutant, isn’t it strange? the one who has his eyes open in the world that has its eyes closed — now they make him blind, isn’t it strange?’’

• strange

‘‘we’re given multiple choices and our taste is controlled by the capital ’’

• strange

‘‘i can’t remember what are the things that i hoped, now i’m scared, where did the fragments of my dream go?’’

• 28

‘‘though i’m breathing, it feels like my heart has broken down. yeah, to talk about now, it’s about becoming an adult who finds it only overwhelming to grasp onto a dream, i’m becoming an adult’’

• 28

‘‘light the fire, you of the past, you of the present. whoever it is, bastard, light the fire. whether it would become a blazing sun or the ashes left behind after being burnt — always, the choice and decision is yours to make. i hope you don’t forget that giving up decisively also counts as courage’’

• burn it

‘‘am i a good person? or a bad person? the assessments are all different, im just a person, too’’

• people

‘‘people change — like i have, living a life in the world, there’s nothing that lasts forever, everything is just a happening that passes by’’

• people

‘‘when it’s not there, you wish it is, when it’s there, you wish it’s not. who said that humans are the animals of wisdom? to my eyes, it’s certain that they are the animals of regret’’

• people

‘‘your being extraordinary is rather my being ordinary, my being ordinary is rather your being extraordinary’’

• people

‘‘set me free, knowing that it won’t go the way i want, set me free, knowing that it’s not what i want’’

• set me free

‘‘still, as ever, i miss you, and i miss you, still, as ever, the memories of us together circle around me, maybe if i had held you back then, no, if i had stopped you back then, still, as ever, would we have remained as friends, what would it have been like?’’

• dear my friend

‘‘there was no way to bring you, who was my only friend, back, and you became a monster. there’s no you that i used to know, there’s no me who used to know you, i know that it’s not just because of the time that we’ve changed’’

• dear my friend

━ trans cr.