Becca Davis

“She’d acted as if I didn’t exist at all, even when I stood right in front of her. That moment seemed to sum up my entire existence. I was nothing. Less than nothing. Whatever I did was a waste of time. A waste of effort.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

“In an instant, your world can turn upside down when you’re least expecting it.”
― Mary Kubica, Just the Nicest Couple

“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad,”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“When you find yourself caught in a crazy system dreamed up by dangerous lunatics, you just do what you’re told.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea