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“The truth is, my young lady, that fate has written the script for your destiny on your forehead from the very beginning. We can’t see it. But it’s there. And the young, who love so passionately, have no idea how ugly this world is.” He rested both hands on the counter. “This world is without compassion.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

“In those hours, they frequently asked themself what it was they were doing. They never truly felt like they got a handle on that. They kept doing it all the same.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“If people are pressured by society into saying they have particular abilities, then the true value they have as themselves becomes blurred. If you say you have value because you can do particular things, you will always be judged by established social standards. So I never say I can do anything. And I don’t do anything.”
― Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

“I think that when I was looking for a job, I felt exactly as I do today—that I don’t want my identity to be defined by a set of abilities.”
― Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing