Gizem Öge

“Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose
loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“I—and you—now understood: We were brought into this world out of nothing.
I—and you—now understood: We were kept alive in some form, any form, as long as we were viciously thrashing about, acting out our most intensely vital impulses, never allowed to become still and silent until every drop had been drained of the blackness flowing inside us.
I—and you—now understood: We would be pulled back into the flowing blackness only when we had done all the damage we were allowed to do, only when our work was done. The work of you against me…and me against you.”
― Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own