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“There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places. Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Society was a system for falling in love. People who couldn't fall in love had to fake it. What came first: the system or love?”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“I was a tool for the town's good, in two senses.
Firstly, I had to study hard to become a work tool.
Secondly, I had to be a good girl, so I could become a reproductive organ for the town.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings