184 Quotes by Min Jin Lee

People are awful. Drink some beer.” Haruki.

Did mothers fail by not telling their sons that suffering would come?

Both men had made money from chance and fear and loneliness.

He was suffering, and in a way, he could manage that; but he had caused others to suffer, and he did not know why he had to live now and recall the series of terrible choices that had not looked so terrible at the time. Was that how it was for most people?

Trying to save money while paying medical bills was like pouring oil into a broken jar.

Men have choices that women don’t.

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals.

But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.

Neither had realized the loneliness each had lived with for such a long time until the loneliness was interrupted by genuine affection.