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A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony

by Héctor García (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 22, 2017 02:19PM

“That’s what family is, isn't it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy enough to endure without us. We create the past in the things that we choose to remember about it. We turn everything into stories, and those stories matter because we say that they do. It’s all a wheel, and ours are the hands that turn it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Midway Relics and Dying Breeds

tags: family, history

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“Blood is one thing, but that’s not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. They’re the ones who’ll keep you standing.”
― Seanan McGuire, Midnight Blue-Light Special

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“Then I stay beside you for as long as we have." He kept stroking my hair. Cats like to be petted. Cait Sidhe like to pet. "October, I meant it when I told you I was not leaving you. I will never leave you while both of us are living. You were not quite this human when I met you, and you were far less human when I finally allowed myself to love you. But the essential core of your being has remained the same no matter what the balance of your blood."

"How is it that you always know the exact right stupid romance novel thing to say?" I asked, leaning up to kiss him.

He smiled against my lips. When I pulled back, he said. "I was a student of Shakespeare before the romance novel was even dreamt. Be glad I do not leave you horrible poetry on your pillow, wrapped securely around the bodies of dead rats.”
― Seanan McGuire, Chimes at Midnight

tags: romance

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