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“So who's the strange one?" I grinned.
"I don't know," he said, and then shrugged.
"Sometimes I think if nobody spoke to me, I'd never speak again."
"That sounds sad."
He blinked. "Oh, yeah.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I thought about the books that I had looked through in the bookstore. It occurred to me that they were full of things that people wanted to say to other people, or things people wanted somebody to say to them.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“There are all kinds of things in the world I don't understand, but I really wanted to understand you.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven