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“Because on a base level, to which none of us admits, we all secretly think it’s pretty much done by magic – and on an even deeper level, we all know that you don’t question magic with logic, or else the magic might get the hump and stop working.”
― The Stranger Times
― The Stranger Times
“The cruellest love is that which is granted late and taken early.”
― The Stranger Times
― The Stranger Times
“Life is nothing but riddles … we spend our whole lives puzzling them out. Sadly, as soon as we find the answer, the riddle changes. Does it not?”
― Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
― Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
“People forget all kinds of things. They live by forgetting. Yet our thoughts endure, the way waves leave traces in the sand.”
― More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possesses by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul.' (Landscapes of the Heart by Motojiro Kajii)”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
lina’s 2025 Year in Books
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