Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.
Kyung-Sook Shin, I'll Be Right There.
“Im trying to think about what I can do. But instead all that comes to mind are the things I cant do. How do we judge truth and goodness? Where are justice and righteousness hiding? A society that i...”
“I wish someone would promise me that nothing is meaningless, he said. I wish there were promises worth believing in. That after weve been hunted and lonely and anxious and living in fear, there is ...”
“Now I know that anytime you see a no trespassing sign, it means youve got to go in and take a look.”
“He looked so silly that I could not stop laughing, even as my tears kept flowing. Is the root of laughter also sorrow? As I laughed, I was filled with both joy and sorrow.”
“I used to think that sharing secrets always brought people closer. So I revealed secrets I did not want known in order to feel closer to someone. Oh, the loss I felt when I found out the secrets th...”
“Full of questions and pleas, her eyes seemed to be asking for rescue.”
“The value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in the vision, the plan, the determination and the perseverance, the ef...”
“Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?”
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”