This may make more sense if you've read the series. And some of them make more sense, or sound more beautiful in Japanese.

- What's that sound...
- It's the creaking sound of the tubes that connect the Factory on the ground with the city in the sky, Zalem.
- What a horrible sound... it's almost like a thousand screams...

My life began out of fear and suffering... Then I discovered the principles by which to conquer "fear" and "suffering"! These two things are like water that flows from a high place to a lower place... I will be protected if I inflict the fear and suffering upon those other than myself. In order to put this into practice I need "power"!! The "power" with which to topple everyone with fear and suffering is the aim of my existence!!

My mother gave birth to me on the toilet and flushed me down here with her shit. But you, Gally, you would risk your life to save someone else's kid! I won't forgive you!!

- Stealing people's bodies and eating their brains all you want! You're never returning to the surface! I'm burying you here!!
- Everyone feeds off the life of others, pillaging the weak, and excreting all this wasten in order to live!! Hypocrits aren't going to save me!!

I have no memory of my past... so I don't know what kind of person I was. I still don't understand what it means to be alive. If it is ugly.. or if it is beautiful. If it is a crime, or if it is something to be proud of... I don't know. But I want to know someday! And so the reason I became a hunter-warrior was to find myself in the midst of battle! I don't care about any sleazy bounty!! And I believe! That people have the ability to choose the way they live! People can become ugly or beautiful!!

- You are very lucky. I rescued you when you were dying in the sewage. Unfortuneately your original body has rotted away hehe. So, I will give you the gift of a new body. Tell me your deepest desire. And I will make you a body worthy of that desire.
- With that maggot's body that man gave me I rampaged on the surface. To live I stole people's bodies, to ease my pain I ate people's brains. I wanted to leave some sort of sign that I was alive so I destroyed... I was invincible. There was no one who tried to stop me. No one would answer me. It was no different... from that time I was dying in the sludge. Then, Gally, you appeared. Despise me! Destroy me! Cremate my soul!!

- ... Whether it was a crime or something to be proud of, I don't know. Whether it was hatred or sorrow I don't know... But my tears flowed for him...

Maybe this is common sense, but people have to always be facing toward something. If you run away or get defensive you'll waste away. If you're not continually challenging something you'll just vanish... At least his is true for me...

I'm scared... I feel like I'm in danger of not being myself anymore... There is no certainty in my life... There's nothing...! But for me to continue living, I want some definite sign...! So,...Jashugan, if I can learn any such sign from you, then I would throw my life away to fight!!

Sara...I was a goner...just another loser...yet you reached out to me...and saved me...Why did you do such a thing! "You think just like my father...my father also used to say, losers don't need any pity ...but here in Scrapmetal Town, how many people are there that can truly be called victors...So if I, even if just a little bit, can share some happiness with as many people as possible, feel it's worth living." And so you gave away your flesh and blood. Kk... what a whore you are. Right now...if you could talk, you'd say, "I am content that you beheaded me. I have no regrets." K...k... Gyahahahaha But I won't forgive!! I won't!!

Pitiful...what a pitiful guy. No one sheds tears for a coward...

- When I'm in this room, I get a pious feeling. All that is present on earth is here: love, hate, debauchery, and uncontrollable madness.
- What is the true objective of your research, Professor Nova?!
- My specialty is nanotechnology. Freely putting together molecules to make tiny robots. But that is just the means.
- What is your true objective?!
- I can manipulate my servants, repair wounds, dismember, rebuild, animate, and kill. But that is not my objective!
- What is your true objective?!
- My objective...my ultimate objective! It is to conquer karma!! Is it even possible for humans to conquer their respective karma?! Unless humanity discovers a way to conquer its karma, it has no future!!

You're the same as me... You see your own self overlapping with me. We love Sara... but at the same time feel envy and inferiority at the bottom of our hearts, so much that we feel we need to kill her. Is it because you're jealous of me for killing her that you can't forgive me? Either way, we're the same, the same criminal. To extinguish this guilt, it can be anyone... we only need one scapegoat. A sacrifice to lift Sara's soul. Let's get our revenge on Gally together!

- Alone. I'm really alone now. Up til now I put all my heart into doing what I felt was right. How could it come to this...?
- It's simple. If you're better than other people, they'll won't like you for it.
- Why?
- Ha! You're dense. Whatever. But stop looking so depressed. I hate seeing people whine about what's past. Responsibility, guilt, fate - people who tie themselves down with that kind of junk make me sick. People are freer than that! If there's something that's tying you down then just get rid of it! You should just turn tail and run away! I'll help you! I'll drive you to the ends of the earth with this junkheap. Find new town, a new job, a new man, and start over!

- Is the human heart so weak and spiteful? Why don't they fight to conquer their own weakness. Do they seek shelter in making the decision that they're weak. Do they just look for someone to take their place and depend on her to die for them.

- "And thus the sheep become the people's blame, guilt, and evil and headed to the wilderness."

- In Gally's defenseless back, I saw what I never wanted to see: myself, clearly, like in a mirror. My small heart was overpowered by the envy and evil, my monstrous appearance... I trembled! After that, the melody that pierced my heart... I heard it for the first time, so beautiful, so sad... it was like... I cried! An emotional wave that was a mix of fear and ecstasy that I couldn't do anything about... except cry like a baby.

The reality of it is people can barely even survive the moment. But still we continue to live... A series of unrecoverable events that is our life and history. How to understand that truth and dispose of it... that is my eternal research topic!

- I was having a horrible dream... I accidentally killed you and it drove me mad, made me a monster, taking my revenge on everything... With no hope... killed lots of people... it was a horrible dream...
- It's ok...it was just a dream. There's no way you could do such a thing.
- Sara, I'm worried. I'm so worried... If I ever lost you... What can I do, Sara, tell me...
- No matter what suffering you go through... you must take it in sincerely. Without blaming anyone else... Accept the goodness of yourself. Even when you fail or think you've lost... Don't be stubborn... accept and acknowledge it. Your worth is based on something other than winning or losing, this I know best...
- What was...?! Strength and weakness...Good and evil! Accept them equally? That's impossible... for my puny heart.

- That's right. That yellow door. Your future is nowhere but on the other side of that door.
- Ido, I've decided to leave this room. Where this road will lead, what disasters may await me, if I will meet my ruin, I don't know. I just wish to go as far as my faith in myself will take me. Summoning all my courage...

- Shut up! You coward!!
- Stop it Gally. You're lively aren't you. You like killing that much?
- I love it! The fight! That instant my body isn't just a machine but when it actually becomes a part of me! It's a high! My mind gets all white and blank and there's no time to think or worry!!
- I like brawls more than my three meals a day, but I hate war. And women who war, too. Yolg has a wife and kid waiting for him, so why don't you go easy on him. He's not like you, you have nothing to lose!

- ....... I like "freedom"... so I've been thinking during this whole trip. How far will my idea of "freedom" take me... to what degree. Until now I thought solitude was the way to freedom... but in seeing that loner Gally, I now understand that that's not how it is. "Freedom" is to take control of your own helm.

I... I didn't do anything wrong. I... I just sided with the safer side, that's all... You probably think I'm a pathetic coward... but... You and Gally are lucky... You're both strong and courageous...But what's a weakling like me supposed to do... Fr... "Freedom" is a privilege of the strong. I want a "dog collar" more than "freedom"!!

- Until I fought Barjack, I too thought they were just some new band of thieves... But I realized the error of my ways when I was defeated! I met him... the great president Den and his great ambition!! "I will defeat the Factory! I'll fell the heavens!! I will break the yoke of Zalem and build our nation on the earth!!"
- Fell the sky... Th that's crazy!
- Yeah, it's almost like trying to remember a dizzy spell... But I fell in love. And now, for that ideal, I think I'd throw away this puny life of mine. This is another way. Be my soldier... and we'll fight for freedom together. Our next target is Farm 22.
- Farm 22 is where my wife and kid are!

Fools! Why don't you understand? Unless we defeat Zalem, true freedom and equality will never be realized on the earth! We are those who represent the people and who challenge in war for progress! Revolution must come now! Aid us comrades!!

I was looking at the sky... Since before dawn... I was looking at the sky. From raven-black to a deep blue I've never seen before... The beauty of the sky passing through infinite gradations... I was captivated by it... Then, suddenly... the blue of the sky came falling down. Or rather... My body exploded into a million pieces and only my heart accelerated up past the heavens... That's how it felt! I was no longer me... I had become one with the "blue of the sky" and flowed and filled the whole world...! If it was just a few seconds... or a few hours... I don't know... it was so bizarre... such an extreme experience... I understand now. I've met lots of people... There have been plenty of unsolvable, unclear things, sad things... but... there is nothing meaningless in this world. There is not a single person who has died.

Itsuka, ko wa oya wo, tami wa ou wo, hito wa kami wo korosaneba naranu higa kuru.(At some point, a child his parents, the people their king, man his god, there comes a day when one must kill.) Unless this is done, one will never walk on one's own feet!

- My little bird was shot down by a netman....
- Kyahahaha! You dummy, you let the bird out of the cage!! Didn't you know it's a crime to fly beneath Zalem?
- I just blamed myself... I'll summon all my courage to say this now. The existence of Zalem is wrong. Humans must not live this way. But! You must not open fire on Zalem, Den! Even if you shoot it down and build a new town on top of the millions of corpses, history by which blood is washed away with blood will surely not end.
- Fool! History is itself spun out of blood.
- My fingers know all. There is no place on earth that hasn't been touched by blood and tears. At the very least, to cleanse ourselves of guilt and sadness, there is no other way except creation and reconciliation.... I vow to live for this. Boku no yubi wa isha ga hitsuyou nara ishani, kenchikuka ga hitsuyou nara kenchikukani, shidousha ga hiysuyou nara shidoushani, kodomowo ayasutega hitsuyou nara ayasuteninarou. Itsuka tsumiageta koishiga Zalemni todoku himade. (Someday, when a pile of pebbles reaches Zalem.) Until that day...
- The transmission is over. That was a resolution to not only accept but to join with everything, the good and evil of this earth and the joy and sadness of the people.

I'm at the border... the line between sanity and madness... there isn't much time left. I was killed once... Nova resurrected me. His technique was perfect. I even feel younger...! He tried to make me his assistant... but I fought! To end his hellish experiments...!! Then he said this... "If you knew the secret of the people of Zalem, you would think differently"...! "The secret of the people of Zalem"... k... kk... hahahaha! I've learned this secret just now... I understand the motive behind Nova's experiments so well it pains me...!! But my psyche can't tolerate such a reality...!! I can never go back to the way I was before...!! Goodbye...! Goodbye Scrapmetal Town...! My colsest friends... I've decided to erase my memory...!! Goodbye...!! I'm sorry Gally, please find happiness somehow...!! Goodbye...!

There were so many things I wanted to tell Ido when I saw him. The hard times... the happy times... so many... so much... I wanted him to see how much I'd grown and praise me. Ido...

There is no such thing as "sanity or insanity" in this world. There is only one thousand faces of insanity.

- He's too powerful...!! I'm no match!! You are unbeatable Jashugan...!!
- Stand up Gally!! It is not that I have achieved the finality of strength! I have simply achieved the limit of myself..!! Humans are of a limited existence. The fight is that which we struggle within to see how much freedom we can acquire within those limits!! Struggle! Be confused! Only then will you truly find your path!!

There is nothing as frightening as not knowing your self.

Everyone has wings that no one else can see. If there is one thing I wish of this world, it is that all people fly with their own wings.