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“Wei Wuxian pointed at himself with a wide, happy grin. “What about this one?” “Mine,” Lan Wangji answered.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

“The boy was gentle in disposition, refined and elegant, noble in his bearing with a light grin curving the corners of his lips.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

“My own weight loss made me feel tied to her. I wanted to embody a physical warning—that if she began to disappear, I would disappear too.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Jomon hunters did not see themselves as ‘Japanese’, nor did their Yayoi replacements. Heian courtiers viewed courtly positions as far more meaningful than ‘Japan’, as did later samurai, who moved according to the rhythms of a hierarchical status system. In this respect, the modern nation is a recent ‘imagined community’, one that is invented through museums, school curricula, holidays, and other national events.”
― Brett L. Walker, A Concise History of Japan