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"Is it possible to bear witness to the fact that I ended up despising my own body, the very physical stuff of my self? That I will fully destroy the warmth, any affection whose intensity was more than I could bear, and ran away? To somewhere colder, somewhere safer. Purely to stay alive.”
— Jul 19, 2026 07:51AM
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Michael
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"Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person."
— Jul 17, 2026 09:46PM
Michael
is on page 105 of 226
"She had no faith in humanity. The look in someone's eyes, the beliefs they espoused, the eloquence of which they did so, were, she knew, no guarantee of anything. She knew the only life left to her was one hemmed in by niggling doubts and cold questions."
— Jul 12, 2026 09:09PM
Michael
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"There will be no forgiveness. Least of all for me."
— Jul 09, 2026 09:02PM
Michael
is on page 25 of 226
25 pages in and it is quite clear this intends to be a raw, confrontational novel. Not a surprise considering it was written in the aftermath of South Korea electing the daughter of the country's former tyrannical President.
"Why would you sing the national anthem for people who’d been killed by soldiers? Why cover the coffin with the Taegukgi? As though it wasn’t the nation itself that had murdered them.”
— Jul 08, 2026 08:58PM
"Why would you sing the national anthem for people who’d been killed by soldiers? Why cover the coffin with the Taegukgi? As though it wasn’t the nation itself that had murdered them.”