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“As far as I was concerned, though, keeping my mouth shut was the most sensible approach to getting by in life.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“When you work in a convenience store, people often look down on you for working there. I find this fascinating, and I like to look them in the face when they do this to me. And as i do so I always think: that's what a human is.”
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
“That point in time just as the last leaf is about to drop, as the remaining petal is about to fall; that moment captures everything beautiful and sorrowful about life. Mono no aware, the Japanese call it.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“I no longer knew what standard to live by. Until now, my body had belonged to the convenience store, even when I wasn’t working. Sleeping, keeping in good physical shape, and eating nutritiously were all part of my job. I had to stay healthy for work.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
Frances’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frances’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
266 books
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15 friends
49 books
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14 friends
56 books
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76 friends
29 books
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90 friends
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16 friends
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