1 Litre of Tears (2005)

Asae Ônishi: Aya Kitô

Quotes 

• Aya Kito : I write because writing is evidence that I am still alive.

• Aya Kito : Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again!

  Aya Kito : When you fall over, make the most of the chance to look up and see the sky.

  Aya Kito : You will see the blue sky spreading endlessly above you and smiling down.

  Aya Kito : Aya, you are alive!

• Aya Kito : The reality of today is too cruel, too severe.

  Aya Kito : And doesn't even offer me a dream.

  Aya Kito : Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears.

• Aya Kito : Why did this disease choose me?

  Aya Kito : I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.

• Aya Kito : I want to live on.

  Aya Kito : I can't move and I can't help others.

  Aya Kito : But I still want to live.

  Aya Kito : I want to feel my heartbeat.

  Aya Kito : It's still beating.

  Aya Kito : I'm very happy that I'm still alive.

• Aya Kito : I want to be like the air.

  Aya Kito : The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone.

  Aya Kito : I want to be that kind of person.

• Aya Kito : Death is not fearful.

  Aya Kito : What's fearful is giving up.

• Aya Kito : I don't think that I am unfortunate.

  Aya Kito : Its just inconvenient for me.

• Aya Kito : In the past, I thought couldn't do anything when I'm sick.

  Aya Kito : But now, I realise that I can do it if I work hard.

• Aya Kito : It would be so nice to fade away like falling asleep on a beautiful carpet of flowers listening to my favourite music.