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“Hadn’t Han Manu, with an iron in one hand and a crutch wedged under his other arm, been more alive than anyone in this world, more alive than the cancer cells that had spread to his lungs? Hadn’t my sister Hae-on—as she sat with her feet on the sofa or car seat, her knees spread with not a thought in her head, with absolutely no clue as to the inappropriateness of her actions—been warm and exquisitely alive, just like a bird about to take flight? Couldn’t each moment we’re living now be the meaning of life?”
― Kwon Yeo-Sun, Lemon

“She’d swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See