Swallows Quotes

“In this society, you could command respect as long as you were someone's wife, no matter how dull your husband was. The world would always defer to a woman who was the property of a man. Though, of course, the respect was ultimately directed toward the husband more than the wife.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Swallows

“She never knew that being poor could feel this lonely, this suffocating. Just once in her life, she wanted to experience what it felt like to not have to worry about money.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Swallows

“honorarium”
― Natsuo Kirino, Swallows

“Her whole life, she'd been judged, told what kinds of jobs she could and couldn't do. All those people who said, Just try harder, all you need to succeed is the right attitude — they were a bunch of idiots. It didn't matter how much they lectured her about being self motivated, because she'd been assigned to the lesser group from the get-go. But most people didn't understand this even if she tried to explain.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Swallows