#cat's plight

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"Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?"

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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'Never sleep with your mouth open or a man will slide in, jut like a snake, and beach in your bowels until you belong to him. The only man you should marry is the moon,' she said, 'so you can divorce it every morning.'

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

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"The thing you said earlier," Kojima finally said. "I think I know what you mean. When a desk or a vase gets scratched, it doesn't show you how it's hurting...More like, desks and vases probably don't get hurt...Even when they're broken," she added softly..."Hey...if we keep doing this, just saying nothing, no matter what they do, think maybe we'll become things, too?"

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

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A rabbit jumps into the starving man's fire and saves him and becomes the moon. But everyone always forgets the rabbit's sacrifice means nothing. The starving man was not starving at all: He was not even a man. He was a god. Hunger was the weather he invented. The rabbit died for a fraudulent want.

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

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In a year I'll leave. I'll marry your father, any man I can ride away from here. The irony: We're the same as Ma. That's what Ma did, marry out of her country, marry out of her body.

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

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My mother asked if I knew there were men in the world. 'Yes,' I said, and went to bed before she could describe all my deaths.

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

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I jumped out of the car with half a mind to laugh myself to death, right then and there, so I could die like one of the Greek gods.

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In his view there is nothing as sad as having fussed over your name all your life–my name is...I was named so because or after my...only to be tagged "unknown" in death just because you can't say it.

Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi