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The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

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“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.”

“With each year that passed, I came to ask myself if Marie might not have gone out of this world so much as gone more deeply into it. From being wrapped up in earth, maybe she’d made her way out into it, into the soil, the water, until she was part of things. Maybe she’d found a way to lead me back to her.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

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“Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it—slice yourself open and all you'll find is blood and muscle and bone...”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

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“I tried catching you but you fell through me.”
― Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

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“He didn't want to rape her; he just wanted her to be nice to him.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Out

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“In February of the same year, a local resident reported seeing the defendant take the condoms the hotel supplied its guests, fill them with water, and hurl the water-filled condoms from a hotel window at the cat owned by the sushi shop next door.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

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