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“When I was writing, I realized something. Your voice reminds me of a 6B. I'm not sure if this is going to make sense, but it's like they're soft and rigid at the same time. Almost unbreakable.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“You have this, like, obsession about being nice. It’s okay to get mad and throw a tantrum sometimes and slack off during class.”
― HONGDUCK, 청춘 블라썸 1

“How very odd that all it took was for her to put on a uniform like everyone else, and tie her hair back in a ponytail, to all of a sudden start being thought of as 'capable'.”
― Natsuko Imamura, The Woman in the Purple Skirt

“At first, suicide was just a word, a vague idea separate from reality. It pointed at a way that other people chose to die, people I didn't even know. But once the word became my own, it took on the strangest shape. I could feel it growing deep inside of me. Suicide wasn't something that happened to strangers. I could make it happen, if I wanted to.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven