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

“Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil. You must accept this you of here and now; you are incapable of becoming anyone else.”
― Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy

“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

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