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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a lukewarm protoplasm of a month.”
    Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “In fact, if not for the plaque-WHALE GENITAL: MALE—no one would have taken it to be a whale's penis... It bore no resemblance to my penis, nor to any penis I'd ever seen. What was worse, the severed penis exuded a singular, somehow unspeakable aura of sadness.”
    Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #5
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why are you crying?" he asked.

    "I don't know, I don't know, but I can't help it. I'm sad and I don't know why, I cry and I don't know why, but I'm crying.”
    Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

  • #6
    Ray Bradbury
    “Morse-code flashes which flickered like a distant firefly:
    AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT ATOMIZED IN PREMATURE EXPLOSION OF ATOMIC STOCKPILE. LOS ANGELES, LONDON BOMBED. WAR. COME HOME. COME HOME. COME HOME.”
    Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

  • #7
    Tennessee Williams
    “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
    Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

  • #8
    Carmen Maria Machado
    “He is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt.”
    Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

  • #9
    Carmen Maria Machado
    “As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes.”
    Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

  • #10
    Carmen Maria Machado
    “It’s not that I hate men,” the woman says. “I’m just terrified of them. And I’m okay with that fear.”
    Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties



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