#bsd lit

“In days gone by I never repented of my acts. I was sorry always only for what I didn’t do.”

- Nakajima Atsushi, Light, Wind, and Dreams

(The translators worded it differently, but this is the quote from the BSD anime that says, “I’ve never regretted anything I’ve done. I’ve only ever regretted the things that I didn’t do.”)

“I am lonely. I feel terribly lonely. I feel as if I were standing alone on a lonely star, staring at the night of the pitch black, cold, empty world. Stars have always made me think of eternity or infinity, so while I cannot avoid looking at the stars, I find it hard to deal with my feelings.”

- Nakajima Atsushi, “On Admiration: Notes by the Monk Wujing” from The Moon over the Mountain and Other Stories