“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
“I've seen the world and I'm tired now.”
― Room
― Room
“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“because she would not believe that she was no different than her parents, that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean. She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“I think the worst thing that ever happened to me was leaving home," she says honestly.
"Why?"
"Because I miss it like you'd never believe, and then I go away from this place and I miss here too. I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”
― The Piper's Son
"Why?"
"Because I miss it like you'd never believe, and then I go away from this place and I miss here too. I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”
― The Piper's Son
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