Love myself Quote by Kyung-Sook Shin
““Yes, I had turned a deaf ear to my girlhood with my silence. It was a time when I was unable to love myself, so I had to go from fifteen straight to twenty. Whether I started walking out of my past or walked into it from the present, my footprints always came to a stop in the same place. I would go from being fifteen to twenty, or go from being twenty to fifteen, If I set out from the past, I had to ignore sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and skip straight to twenty. If I set out from the present, I had to ignore nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, and skip straight to fifteen. Those years always remained vacant, like naked sunlight, like the well with its bottom completely covered.””
About This Quote
Source Book: The Girl Who Wrote Flowers (fiction) by Kyung‑Sook Shin, 2015
The narrator feels stuck between past and present, skipping years, leaving emotional gaps that feel empty.
In simple terms: Skipping years leaves emotional emptiness.
Key Takeaway
Acknowledge each life stage to heal.
Themes
identity
time
self‑acceptance
Mood
thoughtful
melancholic
Type
literary
reflective
When to use this quote
- therapy
- personal reflection
- life coaching
- storytelling
Key Concepts
psychology
memory
narrative therapy
Questions to Reflect On
- Which years feel missing in your life?
- How can you integrate past and present?
A Different Perspective
Skipping may ignore needed growth.
