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
“which was impossible. How could a signal come from everywhere? Just like that, the broadcast seemed to” — 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
“It’s hard to imagine losing a family, to have someone you love just disappear like that.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Inside is where the son and the father will always be holding hands.” — Adam Johnson Father 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
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Bribe 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 America Copy Share Image
I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for… — Adam Johnson 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
“And you could always tell ginger plants whose tap root had penetrated a corpse: the blooms were large, iridescent yellow, and it… — 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… — Adam Johnson Leadership Copy Share Image
“Are there labor camps here?" he asked. "No," she said. "Mandatory marriages, forced-criticism sessions, loudspeaker?" She shook her head. "Then I'm not… — Adam Johnson Heart Copy Share Image
“Stories are factual...If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change…In America it is the… — Adam Johnson Story 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.” — Adam Johnson Gesture 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
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