Desert Quote by Yeonmi Park

“For instance, we were always making mistakes with the unfamiliar products around us, and one time my mother squirted my perfume into her mouth,…

— Yeonmi Park

“Still, I learned something important from my short time as a market vendor: once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself.…

— Yeonmi Park

“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all…

— Yeonmi Park

“Despite all evidence to the contrary, I believed in a benevolent power guiding the universe, a loving force that somehow nudged us in the…

— Yeonmi Park

“More important, while these students were in school, I was learning from life. And so I have something to offer that they do not.”

— Yeonmi Park

“I learned something else that day: we all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all…

— Yeonmi Park

“There were so many desperate people on the street crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would…

— Yeonmi Park

“The doctors in Songnam-ri had to be farmers, too. They cultivated medicinal plants, and actually grew their own cotton to have a supply of…

— Yeonmi Park

“These men were so handsome and spoke with such beautiful accents, like the South Koreans I had watched on pirated videos, that my mother…

— Yeonmi Park

“I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out…

— Yeonmi Park

“Even in big city hospitals there is no such thing as “disposable” supplies. Bandages are washed and reused. Nurses go from room to room…

— Yeonmi Park

“Along my journey I have seen the horrors that humans can inflict on one another, but I've also witnessed acts of tenderness and kindness…

— Yeonmi Park