Suki Kim Quotes

#1. They would swear that the United States was their number one enemy, and yet carrying a pack of Marlboro Lights seemed to be a sign of privilege and class.

Suki Kim

#2. Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

Will Hermes

#3. Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt

John Muir

#4. How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence.

Suki Kim

#5. Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.

L.J.Smith

#6. Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Christa McAuliffe

#7. The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

Earl Nightingale

#8. The stars are in your favor, darling, you can't be horrible. Nope, they won't let you.

Suki Kim

#9. The nationalism that had been instilled in them for so many generations had produced a citizenry whose ego was so fragile that they refused to acknowledge the rest of the world.

Suki Kim

#10. (As for unmarried women, I have no idea where they are buried. For a very long time, in Korea, no one talked about them.)

Suki Kim

#11. This was always the case with North Korea. It was like the bad boyfriend whose presence could never be depended on, so you always had to seize the opportunity to spend time with him when he made himself available.

Suki Kim

#12. Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

David Mamet

#13. It doesn't feel right to love the world and see such brightness when something so awful has happened.

Cecelia Ahern

#14. North Korea was the evangelical Christian Holy Grail, the hardest place to crack in the whole world, and converting its people would guarantee the missionaries a spot in heaven.

Suki Kim

#15. Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

Suki Kim

#16. I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Richard Cecil

#17. It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me ... oxygen tent, iron lung.

Bill Hicks

#18. You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

Suki Kim

#19. these lovely, lying children, I saw very clearly that there was no redemption here.

Suki Kim

#20. Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

William Feather

#21. sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity." She

Colleen Hoover

#22. It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.

Suki Kim