“When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.” — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site. I don't want to go there. When I lived here and woke up from the fog… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“His eyebrows were jet black, as if they had been rubbed on with charcoal-- the kind of black that made you feel as if… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned houses.” — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“If only we could have met each other sooner. We had led such poor and fragile lives, each alone.” — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“Until last fall, you thought you knew your mom well-what your Mom like, what you had to do to appease her when she was angry, what she wanted to hear... But last fall, your belief that you knew her was shattered. You went for a visit without announcing it beforehand, and you discovered that you had become a guest...Maybe you'd… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share
“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your” — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“If I opened my mouth to say a single word, all of the other expired words would have followed and spilled to the ground,… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“You left this house whenever you wanted to, and came back at your whim, and you never once thought that your wife would be… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“Is that how it goes with writing? That as long as you are writing, no time is ever completely in the past? Is this the fate that befalls all writers--to flow backward, in present tense, into a time of pain, like a salmon migrating upstream, swimming against the current back to where it started, struggling through waterfalls, carrying a deep… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share
“Growing old does not make us any better at loving one another or understanding the meaning of life or death. Nor does knowledge come… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“Do fear and love same the same root? I wondered if he was really scared of them. He knew everything there was to know… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“The candy melted smoothly and easily on my tongue. I had no idea anything in the world could taste like that. I thought i… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
