Jie Hui

“When I’m curled up in his arms like this, I can never tell how my body looks to him. I worry that I seem completely ridiculous, but I have the ability to squeeze into any little space he leaves for me. I fold my legs until they take up almost no room at all, and curl in my shoulders until they’re practically dislocated. Like a mummy in a tomb. And when I get like this, I don’t care if I never get out; or maybe that’s exactly what I hope will happen.”
― Yōko Ogawa, Revenge

“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

“重新眺望那樣的風景之間，我突然發現一個事實。
每個人看起來都那麼幸福。
我不知道他們是真的幸福，或者只是看起來這樣而已。
但總之那個九月底舒服的午後，每個人看來都很幸福，
因此我感到平常所沒有的巨大寂寞。
因為我覺得似乎只有我一個人不適應那風景。”
― 村上春樹, ノルウェイの森 Vol. 1