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“Sometimes you can’t see the scars. But there’s a lot of pain, I think.” After that, she was quiet.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Think about how the life you're bringing into the world creates connections, both to you and to the greater world. Nobody is truly born alone.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs