Shark Heart
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Suddenly, a gossamer prescience too delicate to name floated before him, and then it became him. This was the place: his life’s true destination, the point of work, fortitude, hope, and valor. Lewis understood everything now. And then,
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“Love was an action, an instinct, a response roused by unplanned moments and small gestures, an inconvenience in someone else’s favor.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Sobbing near the dry goods, asking myself, Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“In fact, she was both my first and second words: Umma, then Mom. I called to her in two languages. Even then I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Every couple, I think, enjoys its own mythology, recollections like note cards to guide you around an exhibition:”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I’m colliding with a wall that won’t give. There’s no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming into over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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