“And what is love, in the end?...Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?”
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“A nostalgia for something that had never been? An envy at their intimacy? She wondered what it would have been like if Sam had been her lover.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“I’m searching for memories. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Hers was tougher than tough love. It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way to an inch of weakness. It was a love that saw what was best for you ten steps ahead, and didn’t care if it hurt like hell in the meantime.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“If there was a god, it seemed my mother must have had her foot on his neck, demanding good things come my way. That if we had to be ripped apart right at our turning point, just when things were really starting to get good, the least god could do was make a few of her daughter's pipe dreams come true.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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