Cheyenne Kai

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

“It is axiomatic that one death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic.”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea