Cristina Pavelean

“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“If you suffer long enough, it almost becomes funny, and you can find yourself laughing at the most miserable situations.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

“Life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn’t matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. I wanted to be many things in my life. All kinds of things. But if your life is rotten, it will be rotten no matter what you do. The damp rots the whole useless thing...”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Instead of a stable truth, I choose unstable possibilities.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore