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“A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a lukewarm protoplasm of a month.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“In fact, if not for the plaque-WHALE GENITAL: MALE—no one would have taken it to be a whale's penis... It bore no resemblance to my penis, nor to any penis I'd ever seen. What was worse, the severed penis exuded a singular, somehow unspeakable aura of sadness.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase