The Good Son Quotes

“There are some people you just can’t love. Even when they smile, they make you want to pull on either side of that smile and rip their mouth off.”
― You-jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Mother knew exactly how to get under my skin, what to take away from me in order to get me to submit. The guilt coming from one part of her heart would have been offset by confessing in her journal just how painful it was to bully me. I turned the page.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Every organism learns from the moment of its birth how to survive and how to wait, learning how to eat and how to forge on until it can eat again. But modern-day humans don't learn how to be hungry. We eat all kinds of things without regard to time and place, indulging ourselves in restaurants and never learning to delay gratification. This obsession over consuming food isn't any different from psychopath porn. From that perspective, it seemed that humans were the most impatient about their desires out of all living beings on earth.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Everyone knew that you couldn't gain something if you were allowed nothing, but Mother, who knew everything about everything, didn't seem to know that.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“리우로 갈 때쯤이면, 해진은 어느 정도 충격에서 벗어나 있을 것이다. 강인한 성격이니까. 이 집 안에서 벌어진 일의 진실과 내 행적은 영원히 수수께끼로 남을 테지. 그러면 된 것 아닐까. 전자항공권을 메일로 받고 놀랄 해진의 표정을 떠올리자 내 처지를 잠깐 잊고 기분이 좋아졌다. 까맣게 탄 얼굴로 카메라를 메고 파벨라 골목골목을 누비는 해진을 상상하자 슬그머니 미소까지 나왔다.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“그런데도 계속했던 건, 상상의 경계를 넘지 않을 자신이 있었기 때문이다. 그만큼 내 사회적 자아가 견고하다고 믿었다. 즐거운 한때와 인생을 맞바꿀 만큼 분별력이 없다고 생각하지도 않았다. 나에 대한 과대평가, 나를 제어할 수 있다는 헛된 믿음이 어젯밤 운명의 손에 내 목을 내주게 만든 것이었다.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“망각은 궁극의 거짓말이다. 나 자신에게 할 수 있는 완벽한 거짓이다. 내 머리가 내놓을 수 있는 마지막 패이기도 하다. 어젯밤 나는 멀쩡한 정신으로 감당할 수 없는 일을 저질렀고, 해결책으로 망각을 택했으며, 내 자신에게 속아 바보짓을 하며 하루를 보낸 셈이었다.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“Everyone knew that you couldn’t gain something if you were allowed nothing,”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Siempre había tenido el talento de reestructurar una escena para hacerla comprensible, aunque mi madre menospreciaba esa cualidad llamándola "mentir".”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Siempre había tenido talento el talento de reestructurar una escena para hacerla comprensible, aunque mi madre menospreciaba esa cualidad llamándola "mentir".”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Happy stories aren't usually based in reality." That was
what Hae-jin had said after we saw City of God. I wanted to ask him what truth he was hoping to find in Rio, but didn't. The train was already crossing Han River; we had to get our things together.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“He stared out of the window, looking blank for a
moment, the way he did when he thought about his grand-father. "I read once that there are three ways to protect yourself from the fear of death. One is repression, forgetting that death is approaching and acting like it doesn't exist, which is how most of us live. The second is never forgetting about it, living every day like it's the last day of your life. The last is acceptance: people who truly accept death aren't afraid of anything. You feel peaceful even when you're at the point of losing everything. But do you know what the three approaches have in common?"
I shook my head. It would be easier to just keel over and die rather than worry about this.
"They're all lies. They all are manifestations of fear."
"Then what's true?"
"Fear itself, I guess. That's the most honest emotion.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“The swing was empty. Mother seemed to have left for
good. I didn't know why she'd been there or why she'd
gone, but I felt a strange sorrow, as though the umbilical cord was finally cut, as if I'd crossed over an inviolable border and become an orphan or something more, perhaps a monster. I'd probably left myself on the other side of the border: the me who lived with people in this world, who believed myself to be average. There was no way to return once you'd crossed a line you shouldn't. There was nothing you could do about it other than to keep moving forward.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Neste mundo, há pessoas de todos os tipos, Cada um vive como tem de viver. E algumas pessoas acabam se tornando assassinos, seja por acidente, por raiva, ou simplesmente porque gostam.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“O destino não perdoa, Pode fechar os olhos de vez em quando, mas não tarda a abri-los.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Kehilangan kepercayaan seseorang terasa jauh lebih buruk daripada membunuh seseorang.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Di dunia ini, jika kau mendesak, kau juga akan didesak. Jadi jawaban yang benar adalah tidak mendesak dan tidak didesak.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“Memiliki harapan tidak akan meredakan keputusasaan yang dirasakan. Tidak ada yang pasti di dunia ini. Karena manusia adalah makhluk yang sangat rumit.

Hae-jin”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“Seseorang pernah berkata bahwa manusia menghabiskan sepertiga hidup mereka dengan bermimpi. Selama bermimpi, mereka menjalani hidup yang sama sekali berbeda dengan hidup yang mereka jalani dalam kehidupan nyata. Dalam mimpi, semua keinginan yang konyol, penuh kekerasan, dan kotor pun terwujud.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“Dalam mimpi, semua yang kita inginkan akan terpenuhi, dan hal-hal yang tak terbayangkan akan terwujud di dasar keinginan terpendam kita.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“Manusia tidak terlahir jahat atau baik. Manusia terlahir untuk bertahan hidup. Mereka harus beradaptasi untuk bertahan hidup dan berkembang biak. Sifat baik dan sifat jahat harus ada, karena manusia tidak bisa bertahan hidup hanya dengan sifat baik semata atau sifat jahat semata. Karena itulah mereka pun sukses berevolusi menjadi pembunuh. Dengan kata lain, mereka menyadari bahwa cara yang paling efektif untuk menyelesaikan masalah adalah dengan menyingkirkan pesaing. Orang-orang yang berhasil bertahan hidup dalam struktur kehidupan yang brutal ini adalah orang-orang yang menjadi nenek moyang kita.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“Sifat jahat adalah sesuatu yang memang sudah ada dalam gen kita. Jadi yang bisa disebut orang jahat bukan hanya orang-orang tertentu, melainkan semua orang, termasuk diriku sendiri.”
― 정유정, The Good Son

“Bahkan orang yang bermoral dan berhati baik sekalipun tanpa sadar menyimpah khayalan tentang perbuatan-perbuatan kejam yang terlarang, keinginan-keinginan kejam, dan khayalan-khayalan tentang kekerasan yang mendasar. Yang membedakan orang jahat dengan orang-orang lain pada umumnya adalah apakah mereka akan bertindak menuruti keinginan gelap itu atau tidak.”
― Jeong Yu-jeong, Der gute Sohn: Thriller (Unionsverlag Taschenbücher)

“sjkakjal”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Veintisiete huesos, veintisiete articulaciones, ciento veintitrés ligamentos, treinta y cuatro músculos y diez huellas dactilares. Mis manos, con las que había sostenido comida, tocado las cosas que amaba, nadado, las manos que había lavado tantas veces, se habían vuelto armas de matar la noche anterior.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, El buen hijo

“I slept in his room for the rest of that year and continued until the spring I turned nine, the year he died.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son

“Me pareció que según el autor la moralidad consistía en pintarlo todo de un modo que beneficiara al acusado.”
― You-Jeong Jeong, El buen hijo