Salma

“My town is a factory for the production of human babies. People live in nests packed closely together. It's just like the silkworm room in Granny's house. The nests are lined up neatly in rows, and each contains a breeding pair of male and female humans and their babies. The breeding pairs raise their young inside their nests.
The Baby Factory produces humans connected by flesh and blood. Eventually we children will also leave the factory and be shipped out.
Once shipped out, male and female humans are trained how to take food back to their own nests. They become society's tools, receive money from other humans, and purchase food. Eventually these young humans also form breeding pairs, coop themselves up in new nests, and manufacture more babies.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“You don’t get extra credit for doing what you’re supposed to do.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We live and we breathe. We die, and we still feel like breathing. It’s not always the big deaths either. There are little deaths, because that’s what grief is. I”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“I wonder why the Earthlings don't seem to want to develop like us," I said.
"They can't let go of the knowledge they've accumulated, even though it's nothing more than data," You answered.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings