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“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why. I found that arrogant and infuriating, not to mention a pain in the neck. Sometimes I even wanted to hit them with a shovel to shut them up, like I did that time in elementary school. But I recalled how upset my sister had been when I’d casually mentioned this to her before and kept my mouth shut.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Pourquoi faudrait-il aimer rarement pour aimer beaucoup ?”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“So now it’s this thing I do.
I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,
to new places with foreign streets I haven’t walked yet,
and there I wander, up and down, watching people going places I don’t know
and it always hits me that they’re never alone,
always with someone,
and I wonder how they would spend a day all on their own in a foreign city with nothing to do and no one to see,
and I wonder if they’d be happy.
Just simply being free,
like I am trying to be.
Happy.
Just simply being me.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“I am not above retrieving that. And it would not be a hardship to do so, Leena. So be a good girl and hand it over now.
You would not dare.
Dare me.”
― Heba Al-Wasity, Weavingshaw