Hollow kiwi

“There’s always a price to pay for freedom. To me, that’s a happier, livelier way to see things: rather than saying there are injustices or blows raining down on you, you realise it’s all because you’re living life in the way you want, seeking out an existence … trying to give life some shape. That’s why life and literature are so connected: it’s the quest for form.”
― Yūko Tsushima, Child of Fortune

“One thing, though, was certain: that she had never betrayed the small child she'd once been; the child who had pined for her brother in the institution; the child who had watched her mother and sister resentfully, unable to understand what made them find fault with her grades, her manners, her language. And she was not betraying that child now, thirty years later. This, she had always suspected was one thing that mattered.”
― Yūko Tsushima, Child of Fortune

“People depend on their misfortunes. We curse them, but we're actually wedded to them, proud of them even.”
― Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

“Through the winding paths, she had fallen into a woman’s fate, with the surprise of fitting into it as if she had invented it.”
― Clarice Lispector, Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady