“. . . the only way to shake your ghosts was to find them . . .” — Adam Johnson Ghosts 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
“It’s hard to imagine losing a family, to have someone you love just disappear like that.” — Adam Johnson Disappear Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Familiar 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 Done 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 Captive Copy Share Image
“How could you build a reputation in an environment where the only people who got names were the interns and the sad… — Adam Johnson Glory days Copy Share Image
“The key to fighting in the dark is no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your… — Adam Johnson Dark 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 Bitter 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
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
“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
“Jun Do saw a look he knew well from childhood, the look of a boy who thought the next day would be… — Adam Johnson Children Copy Share Image
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are… — Adam Johnson Attention Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Being wise Copy Share Image
“They'd come back with stories of machines that handed out money and people who picked up dog shit and put it in… — Adam Johnson Computers 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 Able 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 Alternate Copy Share Image
“Let this story be an inspiration when dealing with the weak-minded who share your communal housing blocks and the selfish who use… — Adam Johnson Happy ending 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
“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
“I'm a Cancer, you know," I tell her. "So it's hard for me to talk. And I have all these weird dreams,… — Adam Johnson Dreams Copy Share Image
“The autopilot is a hands-free piece of electronic wizardry. It's not some brutal application of electricity like one of the Pubyok's car… — Adam Johnson Autopilot Copy Share Image
“I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what… — Adam Johnson Capitalism Copy Share Image
“picture a pencil and eraser engaged in a beautiful dance across the page. The pencil's tip bursts with expression - squiggles, figures,… — Adam Johnson Follows Pencil 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 Truest 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
“What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary?” — Adam Johnson Transmitters Copy Share Image
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