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“멀면 먼 대로 할 수 있는 게 없다며 외면하고, 가까우면 가까운 대로 공포와 두려움이 너무 크다며 아무도 나서지 않았다”
― Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

“It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides, I believe it is a sin. Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
I have no understanding of it and I am not sure that I believe in it. Perhaps it was a sin to kill the fish. I suppose it was even though I did it to keep me alive and feed many people. But then everything is a sin. Do not think about sin. It is much too late for that and there are people who are paid to do it. Let them think about it. You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish. San Pedro was a fisherman as was the father of the great DiMaggio.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle