Maya

“...I read voraciously in the hope that I’ll become a better person someday.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, 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.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, 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.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum

“Does the weight of suffering you cause determine how unnecessary your existence is?”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop