Vileen

“… she was nothing but a child who has never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Her voice had no weight to it, like feathers.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“All of this is meaningless.
I can't take it anymore.
I can't go on any longer.
I don't want to.
She took one more look around at the various objects inside the house. They did not belong to her. Just like her life had never belonged to her.
Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping