Kim Bo-young > Quotes

“Misfortune shouldn’t be a punishment, just as happiness shouldn’t be a reward.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.”
― Bo-Young Kim, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104, May 2015

“Back then, just the fact of living meant I wasn’t alone.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“Words that are spoken have power. As long as they remain inside your head, you can always take them back, But once you utter them, everything changes.”
― Bo-Young Kim, On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

“Sacredness was not born out of truth, but from the skillful pen of a storyteller who fattened and spiced up historical records. Passed on from generation to generation, these essentially coauthored folktales contained just the right combination of morals and irony, twists and feeling.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“Now people refused to believe that they and the world were one and the same. That they and the Other were one and the same. They thought themselves alone, and drunk in their solitude, they questioned why they, whose greatness should have matched that of the universe, were so small and insignificant.”
― Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“Someone once said that space and time are actually the same thing. That would mean going to a different time is the same as going to a different place.”
― Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“People said this was the end of the world. I disagreed. It was simply the end of the human race. People said the gods had abandoned the world. I disagreed. Divine attention had simply shifted from us to other creatures.”
― Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“Knowing without acting is not truly knowing.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories