Miguel

“While 目が覚める (me ga sameru) can describe “returning to your senses”. I know that these subtle differences exist because I just googled it in Japanese, and then my Japanese wife Rei, super-editor and language extraordinaire, hasn’t deleted this sentence from the book.”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful

“By the time you get good at hiragana, you’ll probably still suck at katakana,”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful

“Don’t follow my mother-in-law’s bad example. And don’t listen to me if you enjoy offending people. If you don’t enjoy offending people, a less rude word for “you” is あなた (anata), where the middle character is な (na) instead of ん (n). But you hardly ever need to be saying that, either. Call people by their names in Japanese whenever possible.”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful

“She picked the sausage up. The smell of grease and salt was repulsive. She couldn’t see it as anything but a slurry of dead animals in a thin membrane.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath