Nova

“If you make plenty of money but don't have any kids, you might get called successful. But unless you have kids, no one will ever call you a great woman.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“When I start to feel emotional about something, I can't tell if I'm actually feeling that way. What if it's just something somebody wrote in a book? Or maybe a line or a performance from some movie... Either way, I get this feeling like I'm quoting somebody else's work.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“That was the first time he sobbed in earnest. Not the cries of someone driven mad with fear, but the tears of someone who understood and was saddened by their own loneliness—the tears of a human being.”
― Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

“I simply spoke in a way that I would be liked within whichever community I happened to be in. I responded to wherever I was in order to adapt to it. I was just like a robot.”
― Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony