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“I prayed every night. I don't mean anything formal, I'd never been a regular at any temple or church. I just asked to be set free from that hell. But they were answered, you see, my prayers were answered.”
― Kang Han, Human Acts

“She had no faith in humanity. The look in someone's eyes, the beliefs they espoused, the eloquence with which they did so, were, she knew, no guarantee of anything She knew that the only life left to her was one hemmed in by niggling doubts and cold questions.”
― Kang Han, Human Acts

“Though it's now close to midnight, the wind is still heavy with heat.”
― Kang Han, Human Acts

“At the time, you were more closely acquainted than most with brutalized corpses, yet there have only been a handful of times in the past twenty-odd years when your dreams have been vivid with blood. Rather, your nightmares tend to be cold, silent affairs. Scenes from which the blood has dried without a trace, and the bones have weathered into ash.”
― Kang Han, Human Acts