Sputnik Sweetheart (Anima)

“That was quite a discovery for me, the fact that arbitrary kindness makes me uncomfortable, but that being treated fairly feels good.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“I had a habit of acting as though I were having a conversation with someone beside me – with the me who was not really right there beside me – as if to validate these random effervescences.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“তা যেতাম ছোটবাবু ! স্পষ্ট করে ডাকা দূরে থাক, ইশারা করে ডাকলে ছুটে যেতাম। চিরদিন কি একরকম যায়? মানুষ কি লোহার গড়া, যে চিরকাল সে এরকম থাকবে, বদলাবে না? বলতে বসেছি যখন কড়া করেই বলি, আজ হাত ধরে টানলে ও আমি যাব না।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা

“I simply spoke in a way that I would be liked within whichever community I happened to be in. I responded to wherever I was in order to adapt to it. I was just like a robot.”
― Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony