184 Quotes by Min Jin Lee

The Bible said that a wise person must rein in his tongue. Not everything you wanted to say should be said.

She has loved him, and she could not bear the thought of him being gone form this life.

If it were possible for a man and his wife to share one heart, Hoonie was this steady, beating organ.

And Mozasu? He is Baek Isak’s son? He doesn’t look like me.” Sunja.

She couldn’t say this to her son, however, because Noa was someone who had studied, labored, and tried to lift himself out of their street, and he thought all the men who hadn’t done so weren’t very bright, either. He would not understand. Her son could not feel compassion for those who did not try.

All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories.

Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes-there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game?

The Lord continues to be committed to us even when we sin. He continues to love us. In some ways, the nature of his love for us resembles an enduring marriage, or how a father or mother may love a misbegotten child. Hosea was being called to be like God when he had to love a person who would have been difficult to love. We are difficult to love when we sin; a sin is always a transgression against the Lord.

Her father had taught her not to judge people on such shallow points: What a man wore or owned had nothing to do with his heart and character.