“Jun Do remembered that he had no one that mattered to him, which was why his tattoo would be of an actress… — 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 Able 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
“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
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
“Where we are from, he said, stories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had… — Adam Johnson Music Copy Share Image
“Inside, I’m assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment’s hardwired loudspeaker. There’s one in every apartment and factory floor… — Adam Johnson North korea 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 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
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
“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
“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
Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never… — Adam Johnson Adversity Copy Share Image
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past. — Adam Johnson Imagination 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
“I find a tattered copy of 1984. I open the book and read a little. Of course it is fiction, but the… — Adam Johnson Book 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 Memory Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine losing a family, to have someone you love just disappear like that.” — Adam Johnson Family Copy Share Image
“Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.” — Adam Johnson Kim il sung 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 Sun moon Copy Share Image
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. — Adam Johnson Books 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
“Being in an M.F.A. is like living in a sci-fi biosphere on an alien planet, where everyone shares your obscure visionary notions:… — Adam Johnson Friday night Copy Share Image
