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“Did anyone ever imagine, back in the old days, that eventually a day would come when people and their brains would each die a separate death?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Memories don't just pile up—they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord. Though the process, for me, is quite different from what happens to the rest of you when something disappears from the island.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“But in a world turned upside down, things I thought were mine and mine alone can be taken away much more easily than I would have imagined. If my body were cut up in pieces and those pieces mixed with those of other bodies, and then if someone told me, “Find your left eye,” I suppose it would be difficult to do so.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Her life was like a pale shadow of life, given form by innumerable layers of anguish.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck