"Overwhelmed by a sensation of having stumbled into another dimension, I walked quickly through it looking for a metro station."
"And I probably infect others with the way I speak too. Infecting each other like this is how we maintain ourselves as human is what I think."
"When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping all over your life to figure out why."
"A convenience store is a forcibly normalized environment where foreign matter is immediately eliminated."
"When you work in a convenience store, people often look down on you for working there. I find this fascinating, and I like to look them in the face when they do this to me. And as I do so I always think: that's what a human is."
"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."
"The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of."
"The manager often says 'someone we can use,' and I wonder whether I'm someone we can use or not. Maybe I'm working because I want to be useful too."
"'I read history books trying to find out when society went so wrong. But however far back I went, a hundred years, two hundred years, a thousand years, it was always wrong.'"
"Maybe people who thought they were being violated felt a bit better when they attacked other people in the same way."
"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."
"You either get married and have kids or go hunting and earn money, and anyone who doesn't contribute to the village in one of these forms is a heretic."
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