Grotesque

by Natsuo Kirino

When people see a beautiful woman, they expect her to be perfect; they want her to remain beyond their reach.

and I think you’ve got the attitude of a loser.

Could there be another woman alive who was less self-aware?

In no time at all she could warp reality into meeting her own needs.

What I believe is that there is something implicit in everyone, which forms that person’s character and is responsible for everything else.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations.

Only 10 percent of the nation’s population lives in port cities, yet those cities control 90 percent of the nation’s wealth.

But then, a person’s emotions are a curious thing.

If I gave voice to just the slightest opinion about anything, she flew into a rage.

“The tailor makes the man!

It’s just that beauty seems to function as its own compass; beauty attracts beauty, and once the connection has been made it remains so for life,

Is not this intensification of individuation—this heightened sense of awareness of self

I didn’t mean a word of it. I just wanted to harass him.

You had decided to act like a lone wolf; that was your strategy for survival.

At that time, I didn’t understand that smart men don’t always select smart women.

She’s too smart for us!”

Whatever I earned was turned immediately into household expenses.

real shit

Men are weird. They have to think they’re the ones in control.

But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.

Time has a way of leveling the playing field.

“I hate men, but I love sex.

typical of a man to be insensitive to my distress.

Because I thought men’s desires trivial.

all they worry about is the façade; they have absolutely no concern for what’s beneath.