“That your wife truly loved the world, and that you loved her.” — Kyung-sook Shin Marriage 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
“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
“You are that kind of person. The kind of person who has to do everything with your own hands.” — Kyung-Sook Shin 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
“Broken down into hours, the number would be unimaginable” — Kyung-sook Shin Mathematics 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
“Viewing the world from a different angle made it all look strange and dynamic, as if seeing it for the first time.” — Kyung-sook Shin First time 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
“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 Years ago 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
“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 Serenity 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 Korean-quote Copy Share Image
“So, I revealed secrets I did not want known in order to feel closer to someone. Oh, the loss I felt when… — Kyung-sook Shin Next day 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
“Nature reminds me that I am human. Nature reminds me that I am a weak being, standing with my feet, upon thus… — Kyung-Sook Shin Human nature 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
“Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change.” — Kyung-sook Shin 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
“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
“If only i had known that the moment you think everything has ended, something new is beginning.” — Kyung-sook Shin Time 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
“Did Mother know? That I, too, needed her my entire life? -Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mother” — Kyung-Sook Shin Died Copy Share Image
“When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site… — Kyung-Sook Shin After life 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 Copy Share Image
