excerpts

Cherry blossom...passing time...a witness of many meetings..a sublime flower. Cherry Blossom...a witness of many partings...a transient flower. And, this year the flower will bloom, yer again to witness many fleeting emotions, painful emotions. In this very spring when it all began.

With sweet memories, there are sweet scents. Engulfed in these scents, your heart can always return to those unforgettable moments. The colors will never fade, frozen in time to become part of your inner landscape.

The library is home to many books and each book tells a beautiful story far beyong reality. Yet, when you fall in love, reality itself becomes a story far more beautiful than any book can tell.

No one can stop the flow of time. But, a picture kept inside a heart will always be there. Deep within, the picture will be displayed and it will forever touch the heart sweetly...bitterly.

It is said that the color blue can ease one's heart. It lifts the doubts and weariness of the mind. The color blue can awaken an honest heart. Summer is the season painted with that same shade of blue.

It is rare for someone to realize the beginning of love. More than friends, but not yet lovers. Such a delicate relationship slowly changes with the passage of time, almost like the changing seasons.

The days of summer intensely whirl by carrying an anticipation as if something might happen at any moment. Surviving the summer storms, the season slowly cycles onward.

With summer's raucous noises, a simple dream seen in spring has turned into a simple heartbreak. The melancholy autumn wind speaks quietly of its meaning...Your heart's true self...

autumn. people say that leaves fall from the trees to make room for those that are to come. Although you may miss the fallen leaves, new leaves will always emerge in spring. The space left inside an empty heart is probably something similar to that as well.

All sound has died out, and the cold, dark night fills the room. Unable to get to sleep, holding on to the covers. Suddenly, that's when it strikes, as if your chest is being squeezed and wanted to cry. A painful and uneasy feeling. From the depths of the heart, a thing called "loneliness" will come

The snow blankets eveything in white. If there is sadness, the snow enfolds it gently. If there is happiness, the snow decorates it tenderly. The snow falls in quiet drifts.

Everything in this world must come to an end. It is perhaps a fate that nothing can escape.

There's nothing that doesn't change. There's nothing that doesn't end. It is difficult to fully accept that, but...that's reality. One season ends, and a new season begins.

It must only be a matter of a moment once it's gone...
We should probably be able to laugh at it someday.
But the feeling will stay forever in the depths of the heart.
It's precious, only here for now. It's our season.
So, one season ends, and a new one begins...

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These quotations are excerpts from each episode of Boys Be...

Boys Be... (ボーイズ・ビー, Bōizu Bī?) is a manga created and written by Masahiro Itabashi and illustrated by Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, which was in 2000 adapted into a 13 episode anime series by Hal Film Maker.

The anime focuses upon the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of first love and teenage romance. Six students struggle in their quest to find the perfect partner. Their only enemies are their adolescent limitations.

Each episode begins and ends with a philosophical quote which loosely sums up the episode's content. Boys Be..., while centered on Kyoichi and Chiharu, actually revolves about seven or eight main characters and their love lives.

Credits to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_Be