“For instance, we were always making mistakes with the unfamiliar products around us, and one time my mother squirted my perfume into… — Yeonmi Park Failure Copy Share Image
“Still, I learned something important from my short time as a market vendor: once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking… — Yeonmi Park Freedom Copy Share Image
“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things… — Yeonmi Park Activist Copy Share Image
“Despite all evidence to the contrary, I believed in a benevolent power guiding the universe, a loving force that somehow nudged us… — Yeonmi Park Spiritual beings Copy Share Image
“More important, while these students were in school, I was learning from life. And so I have something to offer that they… — Yeonmi Park Life Copy Share Image
“I learned something else that day: we all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but… — Yeonmi Park Life Copy Share Image
“There were so many desperate people on the street crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the… — Yeonmi Park Hell Copy Share Image
“The doctors in Songnam-ri had to be farmers, too. They cultivated medicinal plants, and actually grew their own cotton to have a… — Yeonmi Park Medicine Copy Share Image
“These men were so handsome and spoke with such beautiful accents, like the South Koreans I had watched on pirated videos, that… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes… — Yeonmi Park Coping Copy Share Image
“Even in big city hospitals there is no such thing as “disposable” supplies. Bandages are washed and reused. Nurses go from room… — Yeonmi Park Big city Copy Share Image
“...we all have our own deserts. Thet may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them… — Yeonmi Park Desert Copy Share Image
“Along my journey I have seen the horrors that humans can inflict on one another, but I've also witnessed acts of tenderness… — Yeonmi Park Freedom Copy Share Image
“Then he sent us on our way. After we had walked a few steps, my mother and I looked back and saw… — Yeonmi Park Hands together Copy Share Image
