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“...I read voraciously in the hope that I’ll become a better person someday.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“It didn’t occur to us, as we were trying to survive the mundanity of the every day, that this is what life is. This is what we get. A collection of moments, of paying bills and going to work and trying not to stay up too late and walking into a room and forgetting why you went there in the first place.”
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
“It’s like I don’t have the capacity to get close to people. I was always alone, my heels clicking furiously as I kept trying to move ahead of others, farther and farther. But when I finally paused to turn around one day everyone passed me by as if I were invisible.”
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“Does the weight of suffering you cause determine how unnecessary your existence is?”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“That if I want cheesy garlic biscuits, I can bake them. That if I wish to have a loving family, I can create one… I still somehow think that if someone treats you badly, even if you are a child, it is because you deserve it. This is, apparently, easier to wrap my head around than the alternative.”
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
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