श्रेया (Shreya)

“Jiyoung became different people from time to time. Some of them were living, others were dead, all of them women she knew. No matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t a joke or a prank. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“there are words that cover up the world.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“When I lived in Japan, I never really pondered my life. But after I moved to North Korea, the thing that preoccupied me most was the sheer magnitude of the difference between my old life and my new one. I became obsessed with all the things I had taken for granted before, and all the hardships that marked my life now. But that didn’t last long. I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

“This is the place— Of comings and goings And partings of ways; Of knowing and not knowing too:”
― Blue Flute, One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu