Here Lies the Reader

“You can do whatever you like, be whoever you like, sleep with whoever you like. It doesn’t matter. You might be a different person next week, so what does it matter what you do today?”
― Alice Slater, Let the Bad Times Roll

“After all, I absorb the world around me, and that’s changing all the time. Just as all the water that was in my body last time we met has now been replaced with new water, the things that make up me have changed too.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Ironically, it is familiarity that estranges people. We repeat the same things 'til we run out of new ways to say them. Then we grow tired of saying them and of hearing them said, and our guarded silence turning into a way of life 'til we find ourselves drifting like two rudderless steamboats with their engines off.
We misstake familiarty for intimacy. It is not intimacy. All it is, is habit. And habit is a shorthand for silence.”
― André Aciman, Room on the Sea

“Humans should function as machines for turning earth into beauty, not sugar into fat,”
― Scarlett Thomas, The Sleepwalkers