56 Quotes by Sayaka Murata

When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why.

You eliminate the parts of your life that others find strange – maybe that’s what everyone means when they say they want to ‘cure” me.

I wished I was back in the convenience store where I was valued as a working member of staff and things weren’t as complicated as this. Once we donned our uniforms, we were all equals regardless of gender, age, or nationality – all simply store workers.

When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why. I found that arrogant and infuriating, not to mention a pain in the neck. Sometimes I even wanted to hit them with a shovel to shut them up, like I did that time in elementary school. But I recalled how upset my sister had been when I’d casually mentioned this to her before and kept my mouth shut.

After all, I absorb the world around me, and that’s changing all the time. Just as all the water that was in my body last time we met has now been replaced with new water, the things that make up me have changed too.

I am one of those cogs, going round and round. I have become a functioning part of the world, rotating in the time of day called morning.

The sensation that the world is slowly dying feels good.

El pasatiempo favorito de las personas normales es juzgar a las que no lo son.

So the manual for life already existed. It was just that it was already ingrained in everyone’s heads, and there wasn’t any need to put it in writing. The specific form of what is considered an “ordinary person” had been there all along, unchanged since prehistoric times I finally realized.