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“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.

So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character.”
― Richard H. Harris

“As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed,” he said, “the whole thing crumbles.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed