Giacomo Lee > Quotes

“Sleep is the true rehearsal for death, Soobin thought with a sigh. That's why grandma had more dreams of the future the older she got, for death is the future of all things, coming back towards us like a feedback loop.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“An ilness in our mind, because depression is a disease. But we Koreans take it as a point of pride not to admit it. It's an attack on our status. One mistake, showing weakness, and we've ruined our lives. It would be like we don't fit in with all the Straights who went to uni and took that company job.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“An ilness in our mind, because depression is a disease. But we Koreans take it as a point of pride notto admit it. It's an attack on our status. One mistake, showing weakness, and we've ruined our lives. It would be like we don't fit in with all the Straights who went to uni and took that company job.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“Remember Soobin - no one ever really dies. Not forever, they don't.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“I just don't know what I need in my life. Myself and money, churning out crap, or myself and soul? A way to see through all these many, many walls?”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“She’d never forgotten their last night in Seoul, or above it in fact, surveying the city lights from atop Namsan Mountain.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“She breathed in, beamed. Normality at last. Never had the drudgery of early morning traffic been so welcome, nor the sight of identikit apartment blocks so comforting.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“He's dead!" said Min.

The crowd gasped. Soobin was at a loss of words.

"Well," she tried. "That... that wasn't supposed to happen.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“Life is being replaced, and I'm part of the rot," she said into her phone. "Selling happiness for a price. Wearing my makeup and smile like I really cared, getting replaced by an idiot who'll do the exact same thing.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“I would say you have the perfect smile. Perfect for the friendly face of death.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal

“Dreams are the blueprints of the future.”
― Giacomo Lee, Funereal