Jinwoo Chong > Quotes

“That was one thing about memory. It often obeyed the capriciousness of a mind trying to hide from guilt, but one, always, had to live with the deceit.”
― Jinwoo Chong, Flux

“It isn’t often we are confronted so head-on with the next thing that we’re hoping will make us happy.”
― Jinwoo Chong, I Leave It Up to You

“I want you to comb through all the things you can name about the way people of our world consume energy, conserve energy, waste energy, how we are primed to accept the system for what it is and do nothing about it under a complex of fear. And when you’re done with all of that, I want you to forget it, all of it. I want you to listen to me and learn a new word: Flux.”
― Jinwoo Chong, Flux

“Juno blew a raspberry between his lips. “Weak sauce, Uncle JJ. I thought gay guys thrived in the bathhouse. That’s like your home base. It’s the gay equivalent of a meet cute at Trader Joe’s.” “First of all, the gay equivalent of a meet cute at Trader Joe’s is a meet cute at Trader Joe’s. It’s the gayest of the major chain groceries,” I said.”
― Jinwoo Chong, I Leave It Up to You

“She took a long time to say: "I haven't seen your eyes in years.”
― Jinwoo Chong, I Leave It Up to You

“Time was such a stupid fucking scam.”
― Jinwoo Chong, I Leave It Up to You

“I had already lost so much time. It was the saddest part of all of it, really, that something true and real had been made and broken all while I slept and I would never really understand how it had happened. I’d only hear the story told.”
― Jinwoo Chong, I Leave It Up to You

“because people, in some primitive and primordial way, need at least one thing in their lives to give meaning to everything they do, and since i had none, not anymore, it would have to be her.”
― Jinwoo Chong, Flux

“Oh, no.” She looked out over the bright day in front of us. “I am still afraid. It’s a different kind of fear. I think: Have I done all I can? Is there more I could have given? Family is give and take: When you’re born, you take, and when you get older, you give, more and more, to everybody that gave to you. To them.”
― Jinwoo Chong, I Leave It Up to You

“I want you to take a deep breath and think about the fact that this morning, your video had thirty thousand likes on it. Oh, and about a million views. Cool, right? Cool! You’re so happy. You’re famous. There is a bright and shining career in content creation in the works for you and honestly you didn’t even need me that much to achieve it.”
― Jinwoo Chong, I Leave It Up to You