- ""after all this, don’t start to hate me, okay?" Sumire said. her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. "after all this, i won’t start to hate you."" (sputnik sweetheart, ch. 5)
- "the feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. it was a fact. she had never lived. even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. she had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. she didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived." (the vegetarian, ch. x)
- "after you died I could not hold a funeral, and so my life became a funeral." (human acts, ch. x)
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