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“I wonder about choices. How we resent them, and how we regret them—even as we watch them grow.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“I walk through the supermarket convinced that this time will be the time live up to my trolley, and it never is, and the fridge is where all those good intentions go to die, where they stay until I fish their grim corpses out of the bottom of the vegetable drawer.”
― Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
― Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
“Isn’t that what life is about? Forging forward with the answer you have – stumbling along the way and picking yourself up – only to one day realise that the answer you’ve held on to for a long time is not the right one. When that happens, it’s time to look for the next answer. That’s how ordinary folks, like herself, live. Over our life span, the right answer will keep changing.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
“When your own mother pretends you don't exist, it is like you are dead”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“Flames are not just the end, they are also the beginning. For everything that you have destroyed can be rebuilt. From your own ashes you can grow again.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
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