Kima

“While offenders were in fear of losing a small part of their privilege, the victims were running the risk of losing everything.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probing every crack, searching for a wellspring of light or cold, a cupola of sky to sprawl into.”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History