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“Nothing bad has ever happened to the well-adjusted, so they assume the world will always be ready to receive them, in all their positivity and grace.”
― Sophie McCreesh, Once More, with Feeling

“Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the planet, and things will change whether you like it or not. In the end days of the Anthropocene (your word, your hubris, not ours), Matter is making a comeback. We are taking back our bodies, reclaiming our material selves. In a neo-materialist world, Every Thing Matters.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“People are born from the womb of the world with different sensitivities, and the world needs every single one of you to experience it fully, so that it might be fully experienced.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“I knew that in a few minutes I'd have to enter a happy, unthinking world. A world that revolved around the solid pedestal of money, with an optimistic view I knew something about from listening to the conversations of my friends.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada