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“Everyone believed in the Factory. Everyone was brainwashed by the Factory and did as they were told. They all used their reproductive organs for the Factory and did their jobs for the sake of the Factory. My husband and I were people they’d failed to brainwash, and anyone who remained unbrainwashed had to keep up an act in order to avoid being eliminated by the Factory.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“A classic trait of girlhood - forever confusing your desires with that of an older man's.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

“Did that thing just call me Papi?”
― Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“At the end of each day, he used to ask me, “what have you done today to deserve your eyes?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“I guess that’s what makes people do horrible things – they think whatever they’re doing isn’t nearly as bad as what somebody else will do”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“What are you afraid of?” he asked. “Letting go, or being left with nothing to hold?”
― Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

“when you change, the people around you start to change as well”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“A giant hand pulls back a dark curtain from behind my eyes and I suddenly find myself in the kitchen at the stove.”
― Eric LaRocca, The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales

“It’s not long before I notice the unpleasant thoughts have subsided in my mind, flowering roots plucked from their beds of soil and dragged screaming.”
― Eric LaRocca, The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales

“What the doctors didn’t tell me was how much I would change while watching her suffer. I shouldn’t be so surprised, though. Each thing we love takes a little piece of us whether we give it willingly or not. By the time we find the person we were meant to be with, we’re a honeycombed shell of what we once were. Each person we love turns us into the strange thing we become.”
― Eric LaRocca, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

“age has a way of taxing the mind—as if it were a small penance each year for the cost of living—”
― Eric LaRocca, The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales