Shin Kyung-sook Quotes

#1. I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

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#2. Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

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#3. If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?

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#4. You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.

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#5. How can you live without trusting people? There are more people who are good than people who are bad!

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#6. Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

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#7. All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.

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#8. We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

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#9. You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

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#10. Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

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#11. People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?

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