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Books, writers, musicians, films, series, anime, and games I keep coming back to.
Books
Norwegian Wood
Murakami Haruki
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The Izu Dancer
Kawabata Yasunari
I gave myself up to my tears. It was as though my head had turned to clear water, it was falling pleasantly away drop by drop; soon nothing would remain.
目送
龙应台
我慢慢地、慢慢地了解到，所谓父女母子一场，只不过意味着，你和他的缘分就是今生今世不断地在目送他的背影渐行渐远。
倾城之恋
张爱玲
花落自会又花开，花开自有落花来，醒也迟，梦也迟，一朝风雨满秋池，却是一片疏雨轻烟。
台北人
白先勇
人生是虚无。一场梦。一个记忆。
送你一颗子弹
刘瑜
可求的只有你自己，你要俯下身去，朝着幽暗深处的自己伸出手去。
The Wind Rises
Tatsuo Hori
The wind has risen, we must try to live.
Artists
Haruki Murakami
Japanese Writer
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you like this?
Osamu Dazai
Japanese Writer
I had intended to die this winter.
Billie Eilish
American Singer-songwriter and Musician
I hope someday I'll make it out of here. Even if it takes all night or a hundred years.
Sawano Hiroyuki
Japanese Composer and Music Producer
I don't have the power. On my side forever.
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist and short story writer
Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
Hans Zimmer
German Composer and Music Producer
If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
Kana Wakareno
Japanese Composer, Pianist and Singer
Death has light.
Eason Chan
Hong Kong Singer and Actor
Sorrow Is Meaningless.
Screen & Games
Silo
Apple TV
Who are we, if not the sum of our memories?
Dark
Netflix
What We Know Is A Drop. What We Don't Know Is an Ocean.
The Mandalorian
Disney
This is the Way.
Stranger Things
Netflix
Make mistakes, learn from them, and when life hurts you—because it will—remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave.
Severance
Apple TV
The surest way to tame a prisoner is to let him believe he's free.
Shogun
FX Productions
Fate is like a sword. Useful only to those who can wield it.
Slow Horses
Apple TV
Someone always pays. Make sure it isn't you
Game of Thrones
HBO
Only by admitting what we are can we get what we want.
Generation War
ZDF
War brings out the worst from us.
True Detective
HBO
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody
Dark Matter
Apple TV
It is the imperfections of life that amount to a different kind of perfection.
The Dark Knight Trilogy
Christopher Nolan
Why do we fall, Bruce? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up again.
The Godfather Trilogy
Francis Ford Coppola
Great men are not born great, they grow great.
Dune
Frank Herbert
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan
Perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we've barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, that our destiny lies above us.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners
Netflix
I'm Gonna Take You There Myself, Fly You To The Moon. That's A Promise.
Attack on Titan
Hajime Isayama
A person who cannot give up anything, can change nothing.
Your Name
Makoto Shinkai
I feel like I'm always searching for someone, or something.
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
Mei Hachimoku
All we can do is pick whatever path suits us best, then run down it as fast as we can to see how far we can get in what little time we have.
Chainsaw Man
Tatsuki Fujimoto
We're all carrying things we can't let go of. But it's those very things that make us who we are.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Kanehito Yamada
I'll tell you the secret to fighting strong enemies. It's easy, keep getting up and attack them with your moves continuously.
Ghost in the Shell
Masamune Shirow
Asking a favor only works when you're standing on higher ground.
Arknights
Hypergryph
At the far end of our civilization, once adorned by darkness and the brilliance of the stars up above, we will meet once again.
Heart of Iron IV
Paradox Interactive
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
Rusty Lake
Rusty Lake
The past is never dead, it's not even past.