Fanabana

“I guess I've just realized recently that I've been obsessed with this idea that you speak of - getting what one deserves, or not - it has made me bitter. But that's because it doesn't make any sense to begin with. What you deserve and what you get: there's no way to measure them. You get the world and the world gets you, who's swindling whom?”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings

“...I had been inhuman by obeying duty's voice. But I was now free to listen no longer, to no longer obey the voices that command us not to be human when we must.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

“Hell's not so bad for the people who are in it. They're exactly where they wanted to be.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Back then, just the fact of living meant I wasn’t alone.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories