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“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“This is what I can't stand about you AI natives—this assumption that as long as you ask a question, you'll always get your answer. I am not an AI. Try having a guess or coming up with your own theory from time to time. I don't give marks for answers that fail to show their working. Some people might, but I'm not one of them. If your success is a fluke, when you're not sure you could manage twice in a row, then it's no success at all.”
― Rie Qudan, Sympathy Tower Tokyo

“Why would you sing the national anthem for people who’d been killed by soldiers? Why cover the coffin with the Taegukgi? As though it wasn’t the nation itself that had murdered them.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects