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“I wish someone would appear and cut buttonholes in my shirt. Just to prove that I’m not a joke and I can fasten the second and the third buttons too. And while you’re here, cut the holes for my friends too.”

“At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I’ve read led me to make the choices I’ve made in life. While I may not remember all the details, the stories continue to exert a quiet influence on me.”

“Of all life has to offer, only love is indispensable.’ Was love the most important thing in life? Did nothing else compare? Love is great, she thought. But indispensable? No, she didn’t agree. Just like how some thrive on love, it’s also possible to live without it. I’m doing quite well without love, she thought.”

“A good novel, to Yeongju, was one which would bring her to places beyond her expectations. In this book, her focus had initially been on the woman ‘walking away’, but later, she realised ‘love’ was what made everything possible. She mulled over how the woman starts to wear the glasses the man had left behind, even though it ruins her sight eventually – her final, desperate attempt to be close to him”

“lives. In the novels I like, the characters are like isolated islands. In the novels I love, the characters used to be like isolated islands, until their fates gradually intertwined”