184 Quotes by Min Jin Lee

There was more to being something than just blood.

He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope.

You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination.

Beyond the dailiness, there had been moments of shimmering beauty and some glory, too, even in this ajumma’s life. Even if no one knew, it was true.

You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.

It was possible that he was in love with the way she wrote the number two – her parallel lines expressing a kind of free movement inside the invisible box that contained the ideograph’s strokes.

The world was cruel with its rations.

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean – or not Korean enough.

Her older sister used to say that men hated pity; rather, they wanted sympathy and admiration – not an easy combination.