Olga

“Japan, on the other hand, works on the understanding that disabled people don’t exist within society, so there are no such proactive considerations made. Able-bodied Japanese people have likely never even imagined a hunchbacked monster struggling to read a physical book. Here was I, feeling my spine being crushed a little more with every book that I read, while all those e-book-hating able-bodied people who went on and on about how they loved the smell of physical books, or the feel of the turning pages beneath their fingers, persisted in their state of happy oblivion.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“Czy przed atakiem byli oni sympatykami Wietkongu, czy też stali się nimi dopiero po nim?”
― Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing

“I hated museums, and libraries, and any kind of historic building. I loathed old things, whose flawless, polished form had been impeccably preserved. I hated things that endured without breaking, that accrued value through aging. The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed into an ever more aberrant shape. It wasn’t collapsing into death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live, collapsed as a testament to all the time I’d withstood.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“[Japońskie bombardowania] wywołały za to absolutną osobistą nienawiść, której nie zrozumie nikt, kto nie kulił się w piwnicy lub nie wciskał twarzy w ziemię, próbując uciec przed nadlatującymi bombowcami, na własne oczy nie widział matki szukającej oderwanej głowy syna i nie poczuł smrodu spalonych dziecięcych ciał.”
― Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing