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So it's not really Sang-eun against her husband, but Sang-eun against Park Jae-Ho. And Joo-ran, trying to reveal the layers of her husband's lies.

and guess who deliberately drank black coffee hours ago, just so she would be able to stay awake until this hour so she could read more of beach read. emily, u better not upset her

i finally started reading Beach Read because of Wan Irtiyah but wait, now that I'm pages in, why I feel like she actually had mentioned me about Gus? That she also shared with me an excerpt from the book that she felt precious? And how from there I felt like I understood Gus even I hadn't read it? Wait, let me check my old texts

and stop adding more books to your library, and stop looking out for more books!! either increase your speed of reading or simply focus on what u already have!!

it's ok not to finish your current read, it's ok to just move on without feeling guilty

“people don’t live in either the land of happiness or the land of unhappiness. Everyone is both happy and unhappy to some extent” (Our Happy Time)

“As Camus might have said, there were no happy people, just people who were richer or poorer in spirit when it came to happiness” (Our Happy Time)

“the most surprising thing in this world is that we forget that we can die at any time." (Our Happy Time)

“There was no compassion without understanding, and no understanding without interest. Love meant taking an interest in other people’s lives” (Our Happy Time)

“Because, as my uncle had told me in his sad voice, you had to hurt in order to be enlightened. And in order to hurt, you had to look and feel and understand.” (Our Happy Time)

“If the fading of warmth signifies death, then the moment we lose the warmth in our hearts—that must be another kind of death. There was a time when he and I were oblivious to that knowledge and just wanted to die. Maybe that, too, was already a type of death.” (Our Happy Time)

“It didn’t matter whether you were a judge riding around in a fancy black sedan or a diabolical murderer, we were all equally pitiful and equal debtors in life from the point of view of a greater judge. No human being was fundamentally good or fundamentally bad. We all struggled to make it through each day.” (Our Happy Time)

“We don’t have the right to give up on someone,” Aunt Monica said, “None of us are entirely good. No one is completely innocent. Some are just a little more good and some are a little more evil. Life gives us the opportunity to decide whether to atone for our sins or continue committing them; therefore, we do not have the right to stop that from happening” (Our Happy Time)

“You could only feel like you were dying if you were alive and were therefore a part of life. So instead of saying I wanted to die, I had no choice but to change it to I want to live well” (Our Happy Time)

“Pray. Please pray. Not just for those on death row, not just for criminals. Pray for those who think they are without sin, those who think they are right, those who think they know everything and who think everything is fine. Pray for those people”

“I had learned from Yunsu that love meant gladly enduring for another person, and that it sometimes meant having the courage to change yourself”


Our Happy Time, Gong Ji-Young

“But people’s faces, and the eyes especially, contain so many stories. They say so much more than any number of words can”

Excerpt From, Our Happy Time Gong Ji-Young