"Romance is something to engage in to get a clearer picture of yourself. In both good ways and bad."

- Mitsuru Umezaki, Is Love the Answer?

"I'm asexual. That's what I am. There might be other possibilities. Maybe a year from now, I might identify differently. But right now, that's what feels right to me. I want to decide on a place that makes sense to me for my own sake, and no one else's."

- Chika Hanai, Is Love the Answer?

"The important thing isn't to have others recognise that you're asexual. It's to decide the path that feels right to you."

- Shinobu Ishii, Is Love the Answer?

"You don't have to conform to some generic idea of what asexuality is. If you think you're asexual, that's enough."

- Shinobu Ishii, Is Love the Answer?

"They [asexuals] try to appear legitimate in the eyes of other asexual people and society. Because they don't want to say they're using asexuality 'as an excuse because they can't get sex even though they want it,' or because it's 'a trend.'"

- Shinobu Ishii, Is Love the Answer?

"In the darkness of outer space...I thought Earth was the only planet in existence. But I have a wider view now. Everyone lives life carrying something different from the norm. The 'normal' I longed for when I was little probably doesn't exist anywhere. Everyone lives on their own plant. But mutual understanding is possible through communication. There's an infinite expansion of starlight. I just couldn't see it before."

- Chika Hanai, Is Love the Answer?

"Whether someone likes or doesn't like somebody isn't for anyone else to decide."

Is Love the Answer?

"I don't like being told what's 'normal' from people who naturally know what normal is. But even for people who 'get' romance naturally...do they really understand it? Let's say a person tells a mermaid that 'It's normal to breathe on land.' That doesn't necessarily mean that person understands how the breathing process actually works."

- Chika Hanai, Is Love the Answer?

"If I want to find an answer that makes sense to me, I can't just blindly accept what other people say. I have to choose, from a multitude of possibilities as abundant as the stars."

- Chika Hanai, Is Love the Answer?

"Why would you assume there's only one fixed answer? Sexual orientation is totally diverse and fluid."

- Mitsuru Umezaki, Is Love the Answer?

"I am going to keep defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this, this is the least of what I can do."

- Jude (to Cardan), The Cruel Prince

"There's always something left to lose."

- Vivienne, The Cruel Prince