Shinni Reads

“I’m sorry things went so wrong,” she said. “It was pretty silly of me to think it wouldn’t.”
“Yes,” he replied, so matter-of-factly that she felt her cheeks glowing a little. “But it was a good thing while it lasted. Even the smallest good things matter, Sarah.”
― R. Lee Smith, Cottonwood

“To right every wrong you come across in the world would be an impossible endeavor for any one person. You're just one person, and you're putting too much of the weight of the world on yourself.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“I wonder about others like me, who seem totally fine on the outside but are rotting on the inside, where the rot is this vague state of being not-fine and not-devastated at the same time.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“If twenty-year-old me met me today, she would cry with joy. And that's enough for me.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki