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“To you, Mom was always Mom. It never occurred to you that she had once taken her first step, or had once been three or twelve or twenty years old. Mom was Mom. She was born as Mom. Until you saw her running to your uncle like that, it hadn’t dawned on you that she was a human being who harbored the exact same feeling you had for your own brothers, and this realization led to the awareness that she, too, had had a childhood. From”
― Shin Kyung-sook, Please Look After Mom

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood