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I didn’t give a damn about North Korea, Marx, Chongryon, Korean schools, or America. I was just living with the circumstances that I happened to be born into.
“All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that's not real. It should hold you like the earth.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“They were just like the relations from whom I had fled as a girl. I couldn't bear them and yet they held me tight, I had them all inside me.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
“And thus fell the verdict, light as spring rain, regarding Låke's future, it fell over the dining table one night in February.”
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“Being poor or being lonely could be either fortunate or unfortunate, but the truth is that the distinction was meaningless. Whether we were fortunate or not, we were still different, and that’s all there was to it.”
― Nowhere to Be Found
― Nowhere to Be Found
“People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can’t say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say.”
― Oh William!
― Oh William!
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