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“And you … You came all this way to find your father … If you were my daughter, I would be proud of you. And if your father were here, he would be proud too.”
― June Hur, The Forest of Stolen Girls

“Girls disappear every day. Jeju women, especially, disappear all the time once they are older. They think they are free to act without restrictions and so venture out into the world. They disappear to live with their sweethearts, to hide their pregnancies, to sell themselves, to become gisaengs. The reasons are endless.”
― June Hur, The Forest of Stolen Girls

“Selling out? Okay, fuck you,” she snaps back. “This is why I didn’t want to tell you! I knew I shouldn’t have told you. You don’t—you don’t get”
― Louisa Onomé, Like Home

“Of course I’ve been lying. I’m a politician.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Plain Jane