Kelly

“Your self-esteem determines how you feel about the sincerity of others.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“Unlike the gifts men give each other that are meant to be widely circulated throughout society, gifts between women are meant to be possessed as private treasure forever, accruing vast social powers for the family over succeeding generations”
― Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

“Looking deep within myself is always difficult. Especially when I’m in the throes of negative emotion. How shall I describe it? It’s like I know everything is fine, but I can’t stop myself from endlessly checking to make sure it really is fine, and in the process I make myself miserable. Today was like that. I just felt like whining. And leaning on someone, and being sad. To me, sadness is the path of least resistance, the most familiar and close-at-hand emotion I have. A habit that has encrusted itself onto my everyday.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“Hate was losing its emotional edge, becoming a common thing she lived with instead of a treasure she nursed.”
― Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters