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“I always feel at home when I’m in the store. I could spend hours and hours in here. There’s a comfort in being surrounded by walls of books.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men