“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 Copy Share Image
“Why was i nevertheless able to break down my walls and find him?” — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change.” — Kyung-sook Shin Strangers Copy Share Image
“I though it was weird to see people sleeping. It scared me to see them with their eyes closed. Like they might… — Kyung-sook Shin Grief Copy Share Image
“She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned… — Kyung-sook Shin Cats Copy Share Image
“Myungsuh scratched his head and smiled. It was a bashful smile, but it spread from ear to ear. You couldn't help but… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
“If only we could have met each other sooner. We had led such poor and fragile lives, each alone.” — Kyung-sook Shin Fragile 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
“Did Mother know? That I, too, needed her my entire life? -Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mother” — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way… — Kyung-sook Shin Architects 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
“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
“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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“The candy melted smoothly and easily on my tongue. I had no idea anything in the world could taste like that. I… — Kyung-sook Shin Candy 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
“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
“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 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 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
