Sarah

“Japan, on the other hand, works on the understanding that disabled people don’t exist within society, so there are no such proactive considerations made. Able-bodied Japanese people have likely never even imagined a hunchbacked monster struggling to read a physical book. Here was I, feeling my spine being crushed a little more with every book that I read, while all those e-book-hating able-bodied people who went on and on about how they loved the smell of physical books, or the feel of the turning pages beneath their fingers, persisted in their state of happy oblivion.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“Of course, the tweetings of a hunchbacked monster would be more twisted than those of someone with a perfectly erect spine.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“When an economic system actively destroys what we love, isn't it time for a different system?”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed into an ever more aberrant shape. It wasn’t collapsing into death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live, collapsed as a testament to all the time I’d withstood. To live, my body breaks.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback