What You Are Looking for is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

“In a world where you don’t know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now.”

It’s amazing the power stories can have. Old favorites such as Guri and Gura, which never change, though generation after generation have grown up reading them.

“Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped. Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.”

“You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself.”