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“Every other summer, while my father stayed behind to work in Oregon, my mother and I would travel to Seoul and spend six weeks with her family.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I had an abortion after you because you were such a terrible child!”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“If you try to find one charity that both makes you feel good and contributes to the quality of life of other people, you’re going to find a charity that is pretty bad at doing one of those things.”
― Larissa MacFarquhar, Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help

“The Age of Schizophrenia” (an essay bemoaning the ever-growing numbers of patients with that specific diagnosis, a widely discussed trend in the late 1930s) and “But Is the World Going Mad?” (an essay arguing that the ever-growing number of patients in mental hospitals was not cause for alarm, but rather proof of psychiatry’s progress in identifying and treating mental illness), I come away with a strong feeling that Mom’s worries about mental illness in her own family would have centered around two popular notions from that era:”
― Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret