21 Quotes by Suki Kim

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

The stars are in your favor, darling, you can't be horrible. Nope, they won't let you.

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world.

The interpreter, however, is the shadow. The key is to be invisible. She is the only one in the room who hears the truth, a keeper of secrets.

How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence.

The stars are in your favor, darling, you can’t be horrible. Nope, they won’t let you.

It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.

Such is the condition of a first-generation immigrant for whom everything is separated into now and then, into before the move and after.