Yerna

“In truth, we will only perform any action a certain number of times, and to know that can never be helpful. There is, in my opinion, no use in demanding to know the number, in demanding to know upon waking the number of boxes to be ticked off every single day. After all, why would it help to be shown the mathematics of things, when instead we could simply imagine that whatever time we have is limitless.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“I nodded, understanding what he was saying but somehow unable to get my mind off the octopus, the tight but forgiving press of a creature strong enough to break my bones and yet choosing not to.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“The sooner I was brainwashed the better. That way I would no longer suffer.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings