8 Quotes by June Hur

This is the consequence of the clash of old and new. We must prepare our hearts, all of us. No matter which side wins, we will all be heartbroken.

Surely, whatever Lady O had hidden, it would peel off the skin of lies and reveal what lay within. I was tired of chasing after an elusive truth, tired of being surrounded by suspicion and speculations, tired of this investigation that seemed to choke up in smoke everything it touched.

There is one lesson all who enter the capital will learn: evil comes from the unfulfilled need for significance.

It was strange how sadness reached so deeply into my chest for a man I had never spoken to.

Never had I thought of the dead Lady O as someone who had been precious, as my own family was precious to me.

Matron Kim's eyes turned red-rimmed, and in that moment, I remembered she was a mother.

Everyone here in the bureau is too quick to judge, and it will end in the death of someone innocent. But you, you are an eavesdropper. The only person in this bureau who truly listens.

Opening each door, I discovered porcelain pots of color, hair ornaments, and a brush with strands of hair in it. Lady O's hair. I reached for one and the moment I pulled a strand free, it struck me how transient life was -- one night a woman was brushing her hair, the next night she was dead.