“That your wife truly loved the world, and that you loved her.” — Kyung-sook Shin Loved Copy Share Image
“Taking his hand and letting it go was my way of saying goodbye.” — Kyung-sook Shin Goodbye Copy Share Image
“He laughed and said, I don't believe it either but i want to believe it!” — Kyung-sook Shin Believe Copy Share Image
“Why was i nevertheless able to break down my walls and find him?” — Kyung-sook Shin Able Copy Share Image
“Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change.” — Kyung-sook Shin Strangers 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… — Kyung-sook Shin Eyebrows 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… — Kyung-sook Shin Language Copy Share Image
“there’s no beginning or end to kitchen work. You eat breakfast, then it’s lunch, and then it’s dinner, and when it’s bright… — Kyung-Sook Shin Breakfast Copy Share Image
“One thing i am sure of is that our brief conversation in the dark showed him who i really am. I am… — Kyung-sook Shin Communication Copy Share Image
“i can't wait for the years to pass Jung Yoon, he said in hollow voice. Can't wait to be older, when i… — Kyung-sook Shin Become Strong Copy Share Image
“You should only ask someone if they love you if you love them, regardless of what the answer might be.” — Kyung-sook Shin Love Copy Share Image
“Each time I thought about him, the idea that I would never be able to reach him spread through my mind like… — Kyung-sook Shin Psychology Copy Share Image
“Once her tears started, she always had hard time stopping, to the extent that i wondered how she was able to hold… — Kyung-sook Shin First place Copy Share Image
“A house is such a strange thing. Everything else gets more worn when people handle it, and sometimes you can feel a… — Kyung-Sook Shin Home Copy Share Image
“You could say that he split his day in half on order to travel between east and west. Some say that it… — Kyung-sook Shin East and west Copy Share Image
“He tells us life is beautiful. Did he also tell us what made it beautiful? I cannot remember. He simply said, "Life… — Kyung-Sook Shin Beauty 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… — Kyung-sook Shin Fear Copy Share Image
“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them.… — Kyung-sook Shin Thoughts and feelings Copy Share Image
“Myungsuh stood and gently took her hand. Her wrinkled hand was caught in his big, strong one. Her burned hand had disappeared… — Kyung-sook Shin Took Hand Copy Share Image
“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder… — Kyung-Sook Shin Book Copy Share Image
“The trust that had been building inside each of us spread throughout the classroom. Had one of the windows broken at that… — Kyung-sook Shin Classroom Copy Share Image
“Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong. My elder daughter says that when you mow down weeds with… — Kyung-Sook Shin Birth 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… — Kyung-Sook Shin After life 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?… — Kyung-Sook Shin Present tense Copy Share Image
“The baby bird was too frightened to flap its wings and just cowered in my hand. So i put it in my… — Kyung-sook Shin First time Copy Share Image
“Yes, I had turned a deaf ear to my girlhood with my silence. It was a time when I was unable to… — Kyung-Sook Shin Love myself Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write not because I thought writing would bring about change. I simply loved it. Writing, in itself, allowed me… — Kyung-Sook Shin Change 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… — Kyung-sook Shin Mom Like Copy Share Image
“I will let go of you now. You were my secret. You were in my life, someone whose presence would never be… — Kyung-Sook Shin Life Copy Share Image
“I did not have the luxury of perceiving my situation as difficult or painful. I could not give much thought to each… — Kyung-Sook Shin Exhausted Copy Share Image
“I walked behind my father on the way to her headstone, he looked like a house that was caving in.” — Kyung-sook Shin Headstone Copy Share Image
“You realize how selfish you were to wish that your wife survived you. It was your selfishness that made you deny that… — Kyung-Sook Shin Marriage Copy Share Image
“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your” — Kyung-Sook Shin Single sentence 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… — Kyung-Sook Shin Leave Copy Share Image
“When someone stubbornly insists that they saw something with their own eyes, i take it as a statement mixed with wishful thinking.… — Kyung-sook Shin Insists Copy Share Image
“The boy's walk was as distinct as hers. He looked like someone who walked on air, rather than someone who lived with… — Kyung-sook Shin Feet on the ground Copy Share Image
“As if i could have known either that he would be my first kiss and that it would turn out to be… — Kyung-sook Shin First kiss Copy Share Image
