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we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.
“And I came to recognize that, no matter how difficult the reality, you mustn’t let yourself be beaten. You must have a strong will. You have to summon what you know is right from your innermost depths and follow it.”
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
― 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.”
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
― 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.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“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”
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
“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.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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Jessy’s 2025 Year in Books
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