Zainab

“Yet he could not understand why he was so terribly attracted by her thighs, but he was, so much that he felt like taking the nerves of his body and coiling them one by one around them. The appetite of meat eating animals must be just this, coarse, voracious.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“In that brief one moment, I actually wondered if “okay” or something like it might still be possible. But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He drowned himself on the last day of December, and though the local authorities dragged the freezing water for days and miles, his body was never found.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Extremely tragic is a good description of you.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human