Sarah Suk > Quotes

“When you choose the path of an artist, nothing is promised, but everything is possible.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“Yeah, but it never is just about the one conversation, is it? It’s about being brave enough to start it, wise enough to choose the right words, and self-aware enough to know what’s going on inside your brain. That’s a lot of things that have to line up all at once. It’s kind of a miracle that people are able to communicate properly at all.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“There isn't always a price tag or a black-and-white answer for why people do what they do.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“At that moment, I truly understood what Halmeoni meant when she said there was a world inside all of us. A world that grew as we let people in, allowing them to shape us in ways we could never do alone.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“To remember someone is to recognize who they were in your life, whether good or bad, big or small.”
― Sarah Suk, Meet Me at Blue Hour

“Stay out of matters you don't understand.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“People who don’t care about you anymore shouldn’t still get to hold on to pieces of you.”
― Sarah Suk, Meet Me at Blue Hour

“For a long time, I wondered what the point of anything is when nothing lasts forever. Not even close to forever. The things you cherish most in the world can vanish in the blink of an eye, no matter how tightly you hold on, no matter how hard you try to make sure it stays the same.”
― Sarah Suk, Meet Me at Blue Hour

“I can’t control other people, or really much of anything in life. I can only make my own choices.”
― Sarah Suk, Meet Me at Blue Hour

“It feels more like home than Korea, though. The few times I've been, I felt way too American to fit in. I don't even know what it is—my hair? My style? The way I talk? I don't know. It's everything. It's like what you said. If you're not Korean Korean, where do you fit as a Korean person in the world?”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“Don't I owe it to myself to at least try?”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“It was nice to have a routine. Something good that stayed consistent when everything else felt like it was in constant motion.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“I found myself carefully storing away everything he said like they were all things I wanted to remember for a long time”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“I don't want to have any regrets and always wonder what could have been.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“I laugh and she does, and then, for the first time in a long while, we talk for hours, not worrying about being a burden, not worrying about anything at all.”
― Sarah Suk, The Space Between Here & Now

“I wanted to stop disappearing so I could live my life, but even with the vanishing, there were still firsts, weren’t there? First time admiring the plum blossoms. First time walking through a green tea field. First meetup that made me feel like I belonged, first road trip in Korea, first boy who made my heart race.”
― Sarah Suk, The Space Between Here & Now

“I would not snap back. I would not yell. No matter how much I wanted to tell her to let me breathe, I'd just woken up. Saturday mornings were not for yelling.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“Snapshot: the boy with the ink-stained fingers, the girl who walks on the edge of the world, they race without moving an inch. Their legs are a blur, that’s how fast they’re going, or at least that’s how fast they think they’re going. It doesn’t matter. What matters is they’re here.”
― sarah suk, The Space Between Here & Now

“Writing long updates to each other, attaching music links that we thought the other would like, not replying for months, and then picking up right where we left off with a video of an amazing busker we saw on the street.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“Hey, don’t compare,” I say. Tears spring up in my eyes despite myself. “Loneliness is loneliness. One person’s experience doesn’t wipe away another’s.”
― Sarah Suk, The Space Between Here & Now

“It's been two years. You never know what can change.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea

“Always here for me except in the ways I needed him to be.”
― Sarah Suk, Made in Korea