Joo Young

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“In a way, he supposed, it was inevitable for immigrants to become child versions of themselves, stripped of their verbal fluency and, with it, a layer of their competence and maturity.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“I can't buy time. No one in the world can buy time. All those wasted years of my life... I can't buy them back. And if there was one thing I would buy if I could, it would be the time I wasted running from what I was afraid of instead of facing it.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we're most afraid of. And the thing we're most afraid of is often the thing we most want.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game