PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Hiromu Arakawa: We can no longer go on thinking this world has nothing to do with ourselves. This is our world. There's no difference. This is where we live.
Hiromu Arakawa: Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain something of equal value must be lost. That is life's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth. But the world isn't perfect and the law is incomplete. Equivalent exchange doesn't encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principle. That all things do come at a price. That there's an ebb and a flow, a cycle that the pain we went through did have a reward and that anyone who's determined and perseveres will get something of value in return, even if it's not what they expected. I don't think of equivalent exchange as a law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise, between my brother and me, a promise that someday we'll see each other again.
Hiromu Arakawa: On the day we left, we burnt down the family home and all the familiar things inside... because some memories aren't meant to leave traces.
Hiromu Arakawa: Our names are given to us by God. I have betrayed God, and so I no longer have a name.
Hiromu Arakawa: Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.
Hiromu Arakawa: How can you move forward if you keep regretting the past?
Hiromu Arakawa: It’s always a lot scarier dealing with the living. Give me a ghost to talk to any day.
Hiromu Arakawa: To my friends and those I love, this is the path I have chosen, I’m sorry.
Hiromu Arakawa: The world’s not perfect, but it’s there for us trying the best it can. That’s what makes it so damn beautiful.
Hiromu Arakawa: Come on, this is contest of freaks, and I’m as normal as they come.
