shizuos:

_{“he might seem cold-blooded, but he’s more human and his heart more brittle than anyone else. so much so that if you filled it with human love or betrayal, it’d break easily. which is why, i think, he chose from the start to avoid it all, to love humanity. you understand? not to accept, not to face it. to avoid it.”
—kishitani shinra about orihara izaya, novel 13}