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"When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside."

-Naota-


"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

-Calvin Coolidge-