My Avalon.ph Contest Entry

Avalon.ph is having another contest (click this link for the details) to continue celebrating their 10th year online. This time, the price is a signed hardbound copy of Interworld by Neil Gaiman.

Since Jasper (owner of avalon.ph) already used my favorite quote as an example in his blog, I'm using my second favorite Neil Gaiman quote as my entry:

"The bonds of family bind both ways. They bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself." - Desire to the crowd gathered for Morpheus' wake, from The Sandman Volume 10 (The Wake)

Although Desire was quite sarcastic when he/she said this, I liked it coz it made sense. And because I totally agree. I love that I have close family ties. But then there are moments and people in both my father's and mother's side of the family that make those ties a noose around our relative necks. And we can't really do anything coz they're of our blood.