Meli

“Love is a drug made in the brain to enable humans to mate. It’s simply an anesthetic. In other words, it’s an illusion to prettify the painful mating act, to reduce the suffering and disgust of the act.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“At home, with work over and done, what reason is there...not to spend an hour, every evening, doing x? X might stand for whatever holds personal interest: reading..., spending time on a collection of interesting objects, taking a nighttime stroll on one's own or with one's partner. Do one thing, with full attention, for an hour a day. Or just spend fifteen minutes sitting on the sofa and don't do anything for a change: How's my posture? Does anything hurt? How do I feel? We can give free rein to fantasy and observe how we may come to terms with the acceleration of the world that we experience.”
― Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

“Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain’s posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant