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“It depressed her to think people were so predictable.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing tribunal of justice with one's head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Society was a system for falling in love. People who couldn't fall in love had to fake it. What came first: the system or love?”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“... this four-and-a-half-mat tatami room might as well be my brain.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy