Haruka Nanase/Quotes

Quotes

 * "The water is alive. Once you dive in, it will immediately bare its fangs and attack. But, there's nothing to fear. Don't resist the water. Thrust your fingers into the surface and carve an opening. Then you slide your body through that opening. Moving your arms, your head, your chest..."
 * (To Makoto) "Stop calling me '-chan' already."
 * (To Rin) "I don't care about my time."
 * (To Rin)"I only do freestyle."
 * "All I want is to feel the water. With my skin, my eyes, my soul... To never doubt what it makes me feel. Believe in myself. Don't resist the water. Welcome it. We accept one another."
 * "There's an old saying my late grandma taught me. When you're ten, they call you prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. Once you hit twenty, you're just an ordinary person. About three years until I'm ordinary. Man... I can't wait to be ordinary."
 * (To Makoto) "I don't want to get oil on my swimsuit."
 * "I'm used to being mistaken for a girl."
 * (About Miho) "We're supposed to be learning from a woman who became a teacher as plan B? I want to go home."
 * (To Nagisa) "I quit swimming competitively."
 * (To Rin) "I want you to show me that sight again. I've forgotten what it was that I saw."
 * "I've seen this before. This sensation... I get it now. This is what I wanted. No need to rely on or work with other people. I just want to drift through the water alone in silence."
 * (Telling his love story) "When I was in grade school, my parents took me to climb a mountain nearby. That was where I had my fateful encounter. I couldn't look away. That intensely beautiful, positively vibrant, sparkling and pristine... waterfall."