Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 191-192 | Added on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:55:18 PM
It was the first time I’d seen this baby. It was kind of weird how a new person that hadn’t existed last year had suddenly come into being.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 496-497 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 5:40:24 AM
With my eyes closed, drifting in space, it felt as though the spaceship from Planet Popinpobopia really was close by.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 646-647 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:14:04 AM
I wished I were an alien, like Yuu. Yuu and I were the same in that we were both living as parasites on our families, but I couldn’t even say I was an alien.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 1003-1005 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:42:04 AM
“Children’s lives never belong to them. The grown-ups own us. If your mom abandons you, you won’t be able to eat, and you can’t go anywhere without help from a grown-up. It’s the same for all children.” He reached out a hand to cut a flower from the bed. “That’s why we have to try hard to survive until we’ve grown up ourselves.”
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 1052-1053 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:45:34 AM
I looked behind me and saw Mom and Kise walking close together. My cousins and aunts had formed a line behind Granny. All dressed in black, they looked like a column of ants.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 1427-1429 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 7:16:45 AM
She’d grown up, but even now she still believed strongly in society. She had always been exemplary in learning to be a woman, truly a straight-A student. It looked excruciatingly tiring.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 1431-1432 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 7:17:34 AM
I’d only been out for lunch and cake in the neighborhood, but I felt strangely exhausted.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 1478-1481 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 7:22:46 AM
Everyone believed in the Factory. Everyone was brainwashed by the Factory and did as they were told. They all used their reproductive organs for the Factory and did their jobs for the sake of the Factory. My husband and I were people they’d failed to brainwash, and anyone who remained unbrainwashed had to keep up an act in order to avoid being eliminated by the Factory.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 1488-1489 | Added on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 7:23:37 AM
“Deep down everyone hates work and sex, you know. They’re just hypnotized into thinking that they’re great.”
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 2065-2066 | Added on Friday, July 2, 2021 12:27:17 AM
So I’m not an Earthling, after all! I was a Popinpobopian all along!”
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 2163-2167 | Added on Friday, July 2, 2021 11:08:46 AM
“I know, just I can’t picture it.” “That’s because you only see the things visible to you, Natsuki,” he said pointedly. I looked down. “But so does everyone,” I argued back in a small voice. “Plenty of people look squarely at things they don’t want to see and live with them.”
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 2183-2185 | Added on Friday, July 2, 2021 11:11:48 AM
My womb and my husband’s testes did not belong to us. The sooner I was brainwashed the better. That way I would no longer suffer. I, too, would be able to live with a smile on my face in the virtual reality world in which everyone was living.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 2393-2394 | Added on Friday, July 2, 2021 2:10:16 PM
All I knew was that love was a mechanism designed to make Earthlings breed.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 2451-2452 | Added on Friday, July 2, 2021 2:13:42 PM
Normality was contagious, and exposure to the infection was necessary to keep up with it.
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Earthlings (Sayaka Murata;)
- Your Highlight on Location 2605-2606 | Added on Friday, July 2, 2021 2:23:42 PM
I was amused by how cute these poor Earthling creatures were.
