Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary?” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Bribe Copy Share Image
“In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.” — Adam Johnson Gesture Copy Share Image
“The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around… — Adam Johnson Darkness Copy Share Image
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy. — Adam Johnson Enemy Copy Share Image
“You can't leave me. I'm your captive," she said. "What good's a captive without her captor?” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“But I held her in my heart, and would stay with her all my days, even if a great many of them… — Adam Johnson Great man Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t that I didn’t know anyone’s phone number—I didn’t—it was that only at this moment did I realize I had no… — Adam Johnson Friendship Copy Share Image
“Was it this image of the woman she once was that made her fingers tremble? Or did she feel for this man… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“That’s how he’d thought of most people— appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later… — Adam Johnson Flood Copy Share Image
“And what was wrong with my memory? How come I didn’t recollect how I spent these painful days, and why was I… — Adam Johnson Forgetting Copy Share Image
“Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality… — Adam Johnson Leadership Copy Share Image
“sometimes the boys from Propaganda will nose around for a feel-good story to play to the citizens over the loudspeakers, but we’re… — Adam Johnson Propaganda Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“And then he closed his eyes and imagined Sun Moon, the one that was always within him...she was a calm presence, open-armed,… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson America Copy Share Image
“They’re about a woman whose beauty is like a rare flower. There is a man who has a great love for her,… — Adam Johnson Beauty Copy Share Image
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true… — Adam Johnson Acting Copy Share Image
“His mind and his flesh had separated, his brain had sat high and frightened above the mule of his body, a beast… — Adam Johnson Psychology Copy Share Image
“Was this what a family was, how it grew—straight as the children’s teeth? Sure, there was an arm in a sling and… — Adam Johnson Children Copy Share Image
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“She's read every word I've written," he said. "That's the truest way to know someone's heart.” — adam johnson Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine losing a family, to have someone you love just disappear like that.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“With a baby, I’d have something to show for all this. I’d have a reason. At the least, I’d have something to… — Adam Johnson Baby Copy Share Image
“Inside is where the son and the father will always be holding hands.” — Adam Johnson Father Copy Share Image
“Do you feel for the man hungry enough to steal?" Commander Ga asked as they drove by. "Or for the men who… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Jun Do remembered that he had no one that mattered to him, which was why his tattoo would be of an actress… — Adam Johnson Tattoo Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Creativity Copy Share Image
“When the dogs returned, the Senator gave them treats from his pocket, and Jun Do understood that in communism, you'd threaten a… — Adam Johnson Capitalism Copy Share Image
A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside… — Adam Johnson Alive Copy Share Image
“He had been the person who took. He’d been the one who was taken. And he’d been the one left behind. Next… — Adam Johnson Left behind Copy Share Image
“There is a talk that every father has with his son in which he brings the child to understand that there are… — Adam Johnson Children Copy Share Image
“What happened?” Buc asked him. “I told her the truth about something,” Ga answered. “You’ve got to stop doing that,” Buc said.… — Adam Johnson Health Copy Share Image
“It's called a gui-tar. It's used to perform American rural music. It's said to be especially popular in Texas," he told her.… — Adam Johnson American music Copy Share Image
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you… — Adam Johnson Astronomy Copy Share Image
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