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“But I also know that the spark of human dignity is never completely extinguished, and that given the oxygen of freedom and the power of love, it can grow again.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“If some of my classmates hadn’t grown, that wasn’t my problem. Now that I had that mental armor on, I could handle whatever she was about to throw at me.”
― Amy Award, The C*ck Down the Block

“I told almost nothing of my story to the other defectors and human rights advocates I met in South Korea. I believed that, somehow, if I refused to acknowledge the unspeakable past, it would disappear. I convinced myself that a lot of it never happened; I taught myself to forget the rest.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“How can anyone ever say yes to you if you say no to yourself first?”
― Stephanie Archer, Behind the Net