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“...I wanted to say happiness is never beyond reach. It's not in the distant past, nor on the horizon of the future. It's right in front of me.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men