23 quotes found
“In this way, youll live forever.”
“In this way, you’ll live forever.”
“Acts of heroism are easybecoming a hero is a bitch.”
“Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.”
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.”
“Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.”
“Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blan...”
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.”
“Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.”
“Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.”
“A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're...”
“... that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.”
“[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.”
“Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.”
“This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldnt understand what they meant for a long, long time.”
“Life's full of events - they occur and you adjust, you roll and move on. But at some point you realize some events are actually developments. You realize there's a big plan out there you know nothi...”
“The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you”
“When the dogs returned, the Senator gave them treats from his pocket, and Jun Do understood that in communism, youd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained throug...”
“I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what to do. Is it true you're given no ration card, that you must find food for yourself? ...”
“This feeling of being in proximity to something thats lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now.”
“Jun Do had dealt with this his whole life, the ways it was impossible for people from normal families to conceive of a man in so much hurt that he couldnt acknowledge his own son, that there was no...”
“To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero”
