56 Quotes by Sayaka Murata

I couldn't stop hearing the store telling me the way it wanted to be, what it needed. It was all flowing into me. It wasn't me speaking. It was the store. I was just channeling its revelations from on high.

I caught sight of myself reflected in the window of the convenience store I'd just come out of. My hands, my feet—they existed only for the store! For the first time, I could think of the me in the window as a being with meaning. "Irasshaimasé!

Oh, I thought absently, I've become a foreign object. In my mind's eye I saw Shiraha, who had been forced to leave the store. Maybe it would be my turn next. The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of. So that's why I need to be cured. Unless I'm cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.

Si j'ai pu autant évoluer en tant qu'individu, c'est grâce à l'influence des personnes qui m'entourent.(...)Tout ce qui concerne la façon de parler, en particulier, je l'apprends par imitation. Mon language actuel est un mélange d'Izumi et de Sugehara.N'est-ce pas ainsi que fonctionne tout le monde ?(...)C'est en nous imprégnant ainsi les uns des autres que nous préservons notre humanité.

From where I stood, there were two types of prejudiced people—those who had a deep-rooted urge for prejudice and those who unthinkingly repeated a barrage of slurs they'd heard somewhere. Shiraha appeared to be the latter.

Deep in the mountains of Akishina where Granny and Grandpa live, fragments of night linger even at midday.

A convenience store is a world of sound.

A mí todos los bebés me parecen iguales, tanto mi sobrino como los hijos de Miho, y no entiendo por qué tengo que ir expresamente a ver a mi sobrino. Supongo que hay que tener cierta consideración con los bebés de tu propia familia, pero para mí los bebés son como los gatos callejeros: aunque sean un poco diferentes entre sí, todos son animales de la misma especie.

Society was a system for falling in love. People who couldn't fall in love had to fake it. What came first: the system or love?