Jessy

“The party started churning out more slogans, more propaganda. I couldn’t help but wonder where they even got all the paper for the posters—and whether I could eat it”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

“In the West, I guess you’d call it corruption. In North Korea, it was just standard operating procedure.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

“We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it’s the same kind of hunger.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him. As though this is the end point Werner has been moving toward ever since he left Zollverein.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See