“Love can be exploited, I guess, used to manipulate. It's leverage. But I would never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness.”
― War Storm
― War Storm
“In the free world, children dream about what they want to be when they grow up and how they can use their talents. When I was four or five years old, my only adult ambition was to buy as much bread as I liked and eat all of it”
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“Just because some people actually work for their money doesn’t mean they are beneath you.”
― Crazy Rich Asians
― Crazy Rich Asians
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their pain and renunciation”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“When was the last time you’d told Mom about something that had happened to you? At a certain point, the conversations between you and Mom became simplified. Even that was not done face to face, but by telephone.”
― Please Look After Mom
― Please Look After Mom
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