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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.
“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“If I’m being honest, there’s a lot of anger. I’m angry at this old Korean woman I don’t know, that she gets to live and my mother does not,”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Sometimes when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and touched a burning star, and it is both unendurable and terrifying.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“It was not that she was talking—she was sipping her drink and appeared. It to be listening to the conversation al all, but she was always the center of the universe. She made the party crackle to list just by standing there with her cherry-stained mouth and fur coat, her eyes glistening in mockery.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“The memories I stored, I could not let festered. Could not let trauma infiltrate and spread, to spoil and render them useless. They were moments to be tended. The culture we shared I was active, effervescent in my gut and in my genes, and I had to seize it, foster it so it did not die in me. So that I could pass it on someday. The lessons she imparted, the proof of her life lived on in me, and in every move and deed. I was what she left behind. If I could not be with my mother, I would be her.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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