While she never actually taught me how to cook (Korean people tend to disavow measurements and supply only cryptic instructions along the lines of “add sesame oil until it tastes like Mom’s”), she did raise me with a distinctly Korean
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“But when I got hurt, my mom was livid, as if I had maliciously damaged her property.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“I had always been sedentary by nature, and felt happiest at home.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“It’s hard to be positive sometimes. I know I lost a lot of years to the inertia of just being, without course, without any sense of direction.”
― How to Be Autistic
― How to Be Autistic
“The telephone—it is not a thing that brings people nearer: it underlines their remoteness.”
― The Woman Destroyed: An Exquisite Psychological Adult Fiction Study of Passion and Betrayal
― The Woman Destroyed: An Exquisite Psychological Adult Fiction Study of Passion and Betrayal
“she can’t help thinking about all the other hundreds of strangers who have slept in the same bedsheets, drunk from the same cups, or shat in the same toilet before.”
― Rock Paper Scissors
― Rock Paper Scissors
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