Maria Janella

“Perhaps you're co-dependent on your work as well. When you get good results, your worth is realised and you relax, but that satisfaction doesn't last long - that's the problem.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“Even if we are nothing but small dust in this universe, we can overcome this emptiness and protect our own dignity.
Regardless of what the world considers victory and defeat, I want to feel proud of that life.”
― Kim Suhyun, I Decided to Live as Myself

“Psychiatrist: If you make yourself anxious to gain attention, someone will give you attention. Then you get comfortable, and the other person will as well. But after that, you feel despair again. Despite your intentions, you start thinking, If I’m happy then this person will stop paying attention to me, which naturally leads to you trying to avoid becoming happy at all costs.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“What I need to practice from now on is to stop trapping myself in the same formula of, 'This is what I have to be doing,' and to simply acknowledge the fact that I am an independent individual.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki