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“Yes, that’s it. Love. That’s the expression Mom wears on her face in that photograph. What else could you call it apart from love? And love, this magical thing that’s unique to human beings and can sometimes make us absolutely miserable, is also the thing that buoys the human spirit. Like time, color, temperature, and loneliness, love is one of those things that only humans experience. These things can rule over or control us, but they also allow us to live more fully. They are precisely what make us human.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“I guess it’s the same with life. We all know it has to end someday, but even so, we act as if we’re going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it must come to an end.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“Maybe this was the only meaning humans had on this planet. Their purpose was simply to pursue the enlightenment of orgasm.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“But it was even dirtier than the other room. Sophie winced from the toilet, flinched at the color of the bath, recoiled from green weed growing in the shower, and quite easily avoided looking at her shriveled shape in the mirrors because the glass was plastered with blobs and runnels of nameless substances.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle