16 Quotes by Shin Kyung-sook

I will let go of you now. You were my secret. You were in my life, someone whose presence would never be guessed by anyone who knew me. Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought me a raft for every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you that I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy. I am going to go now.

I can't wait for the years to pass, Jung Yoon," he said in a hallow voice. "Can't wait to be older, when I will understad, even if I can't forgive. Can't wait to become strong.

I still did not want to take it, but Mother said, "It is so when I die you can pick persimmons and think about me".

Una delle gioie della vita è condividere il proprio piatto preferito con la persona a cui si è affezionati.

If you only do what you like, who’s going to do what you don’t like?

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.

Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.