Annalise

“It’s your body, you can treat it however you please. The only area where you’re free to do just as you like. And even that doesn’t turn out how you wanted.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Being able to see; being able to hold a book; being able to turn its page; being able to maintain a reading posture; being able to go to a bookshop to buy a book - I loathed the exclusionary machismo of book culture that demanded that its participants meet these five criteria of able-bodiedness. I loathed, too, the ignorant arrogance of all those self-professed book-lovers so oblivious to their privilege.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark