But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of… — Adam Johnson 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 Copy Share Image
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy. — 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 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
Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in… — Adam Johnson 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 you” — Adam Johnson 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 over time… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Real stories like this, human ones, could get you sent to prison, and it didn’t matter what they were about. It didn’t matter if… — 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
“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 one to… — 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 were trying… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw. — Adam Johnson 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 story wants… — adam johnson Copy Share Image