16 Quotes by Shin Kyung-sook

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

You’re paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

How far back does one’s memory of someone go?

How can you live without trusting people? There are more people who are good than people who are bad!

I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

To you, Mom was always Mom. It never occurred to you that she had once taken her first step, or had once been three or twelve or twenty years old. Mom was Mom. She was born as Mom. Until you saw her running to your uncle like that, it hadn’t dawned on you that she was a human being who harbored the exact same feeling you had for your own brothers, and this realization led to the awareness that she, too, had had a childhood. From.