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“At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why. I found that arrogant and infuriating, not to mention a pain in the neck. Sometimes I even wanted to hit them with a shovel to shut them up, like I did that time in elementary school. But I recalled how upset my sister had been when I’d casually mentioned this to her before and kept my mouth shut.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“The sensation that the world is slowly dying feels good.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You