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Now I understand the exchange of silence for the comfort of others as oppression;
“If the ultimate proof of God is existence itself—which many claim to be the case—then a true state of grace may mean dwelling so fully and completely in her present moment that you are still reading your books and singing your songs when the guards come for you at dawn.”
― In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
― In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
“that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Eat these when darkness falls. What you swallow is the taste of what you’ve done. Be prepared for that. Only you know how bitter it will be. But don’t bother with any of it if you have no regret. If that’s the case, pour your rival a cup of tea every morning, because there she’ll be, with your child in her arms.”
― The Dovekeepers
― The Dovekeepers
“The women who arrive call me clever, cunning, beautiful, wise. They tell me their secrets and speak of violations and of dreams. They confide what they would never admit to another even though I am a stranger. I do the best I can on their behalf.”
― The Dovekeepers
― The Dovekeepers
“She cannot describe for me precisely what she means, but I assume she thinks that the extra time we’ve spent reading and writing has affected Michael, Juston, and me; we are the three who have gone to college. We have been forever altered by books. We will ask questions, and in doing so, we allow an uncharted world to form in our heads. Our world is not so much a place in which problems are fixed, but one in which doors are left open and we live with the uncertainty of what we do not know. We will revisit the open doors day after day, and we share the open doors with one another.”
― American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
― American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
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