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“In principle, all women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment, but the world made doing so profoundly difficult”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“She was tired of living her life thinking constantly about how she appeared to others, checking her answers against everyone else’s.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“There is nothing in this world so pathetic, so moronic, so meaningless as dieting.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“Not looking after yourself is a form of violence.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Being human is to grieve constantly.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends