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‘One should be able to do things for oneself, but the world would surely be a better place if we did more for one another.’
“Only by learning about the journeys of others can we truly understand our own”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Kindness toward strangers is rare in North Korea. There is risk in helping others. The irony was that by forcing us to be good citizens, the state made accusers and informers of us all.”
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
“Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me, she thought, and the words were true enough that she repeated them aloud: “Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Parents don't always like to admit that things have changed. They want the world to be exactly the way it was before their children went away on these life-changing adventures, and when the world doesn't oblige, they try to force it into the boxes they build for us.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
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