What I am certain of is this: my body feels depleted, like a foreign country after a war. And yet I cannot go back to sleep.
“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“It was not Hansu that she missed, or even Isak. What she was seeing again in her dreams was her youth, her beginning, and her wishes--so this is how she became a woman.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“History has failed us, but no matter.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Life makes you pay...everybody pays something”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
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