Jennifer

“But a young person ought t’eat plenty. Eat plenty and fatten up plenty. People nowadays hate t’get fat, but if you ask me, they’re looking at fat all wrong. They say it makes you unhealthy or ugly, but it’d never happen ’tall if you fatten up the right way. You live a fuller life, have more sex drive, sharpen your wits.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“I didn’t find his explanation surprising, or odd, and just accepted it. Wearing a skirt every day must have fit his feelings best.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“I’m from the New Electro Company,’ Zame mutters. ‘Buy this electric spider.”
― Jay Rubin, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

“According to the news, when you boiled water its concentration of radioactive particles increased. Starting tomorrow, I’d stop breastfeeding and give the baby formula made with tap water.”
― Jay Rubin, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories