Now I understand the exchange of silence for the comfort of others as oppression;
“because there is something about the animals that takes us out of ourselves and takes us out of time and allows us to forget our own lives.”
― LIFE AFTER GOD
― LIFE AFTER GOD
“Kafka calls it the Indestructible—the thing at the bottom of each individual that keeps going whether they feel like going or not. The Indestructible is a place that has nothing to do with optimism—”
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Remember that. Your own story is just one, and perhaps not the important one. The self is not the principal thing.”
― Warlight
― Warlight
“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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