Top 34 Yeonmi Quotes
#1. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#2. He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
John Dryden
#3. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#4. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#5. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#6. She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.
Derek Landy
#7. You are like an ocean: quietly ebbing and flowing to the rhythm of life, but wildly expansive and profoundly powerful. You are boundless. You are whole. Your quietness is your strength. Your depth is your advantage.
Aletheia Luna
#9. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#10. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#11. People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.
Joyce Carol Oates
#13. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#14. Julia couldn't stop kissing him, pressing her lips over and over against his. She felt like she wanted to swallow him, like she couldn't bear for him to ever pull away.
Claire Kent
#15. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#16. I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.
Yeonmi Park
#17. When you have so little, just the smallest thing can make you happy - and
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#18. I couldn't imagine it was possible for something so beautiful to exist in the same world as me.
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#19. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#20. So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#21. 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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#22. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#23. The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.
W. Eugene Smith
#24. 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.
Yeonmi Park
#25. when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.
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#26. As North Koreans, we were innocent in a way that I cannot fully explain.
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#27. I'm game to stay in bed if you are." "We can't." "Why not?" "Because we don't even know each other." "Hi, my name is Daryl, and I think you're fucking crazy, but hot." More than hot, she totally made his inner kitty wish it could purr.
Eve Langlais
#28. But there was human intimacy and connection, something that is hard to find in the modern world I inhabit today.
Yeonmi Park
#29. Come to my grave someday, and tell me that the North and South are reunited." It
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#30. It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.
Yeonmi Park
#31. In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.
John Lanchester
#32. God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.
Kedar Joshi
#33. I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#34. 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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