Top 27 Yeonmi Park Quotes

#1. I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn't loved, I wasn't free, and I wasn't safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.

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#2. She felt the way she always did when she was traveling, as though she was enjoying the novelty but would be happiest when she could consider it all from the vantage point of home, with her suitcase unpacked ...

Anna Quindlen

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#3. In North Korea, even arithmetic is a propaganda tool. A typical problem would go like this: "If you kill one American bastard and your comrade kills two, how many dead American bastards do you have?

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#4. They need to control you through your emotions, making you a slave to the state by destroying your individuality, and your ability to react to situations based on your own experience of the world.

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#5. I bout a bag of tortilla chips that was almost as big as me. And I bought some work clothes and a pair of Adidas that I could never imagine affording before in my life.

So far, America was very impressive.

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#6. when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.

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#7. As North Koreans, we were innocent in a way that I cannot fully explain.

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#8. I couldn't imagine it was possible for something so beautiful to exist in the same world as me.

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#9. But there was human intimacy and connection, something that is hard to find in the modern world I inhabit today.

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#10. Come to my grave someday, and tell me that the North and South are reunited." It

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#11. It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.

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#12. I wonder often if they survived, and if they are still in North Korea. There were so many desperate people on the streets crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while you can't care anymore. And that is what hell is like. Almost

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#13. We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.

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#14. Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

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#15. There were so many desperate people on the streets crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while you don't care anymore. And that is what hell is like.

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#16. Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism ...

Daniel Dennett

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#17. In the free world, children dream about what they want to be when they grow up and how they can use their talents. When I was four and five years old, my only adult ambition was to buy as much bread as I liked and eat all of it.

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#18. My mother had fought to hold on to her belief that she lived in a good country. She was shocked and saddened to realize how corrupt and pitiless North Korea had become. Now she was even more convinced that she couldn't let her daughters grow up in such a place. We had to get out as soon as possible.

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#19. Maybe he was concerned, or bored, or inappropriately friendly, or midwestern friendly.

Ann Patchett

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#20. In Korea we say that if a person cannot close his eyes in death, it is because he hasn't fulfilled something in this world.

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#21. A second chance? I thought. A second chance is what criminals get. I knew I wasn't a criminal; I did what I had to do to survive and save my family.

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#22. Death occupied the spaces between us.

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#23. Why does this person, who doesn't even speak our language, care so much about us that he is willing to risk his life for us? It moved us both to tears. I said a silent prayer of thanks as we became a part of the night.

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#24. The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

Jock Sturges

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#25. and I particularly loved biographies because they were about people who had to overcome obstacles or prejudices to get ahead. They made me think I could make it when nobody else believed in me, when even I didn't believe in myself.

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#26. I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.

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#27. When you have so little, just the smallest thing can make you happy - and

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