Shin Kyung-sook Quotes

• People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?

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  Mom, Baby, Tired

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Sep 07, 2012

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• 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.

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  Heart, Dust, Cobwebs

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Aug 04, 2013

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

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  Si

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.70, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Mean, Sacrifice, Decision

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

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  Strong, Sometimes, Life Is

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.220, Vintage

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

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  Beautiful, Hero, Tragedy

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• Mom's eyes held yours for a moment. 'I don't like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked because I had to. I had to stay in the kitchen so you could all eat and go to school. How could you only do what you like? There are things you have to do whether you like it or not.' Mom's expression asked, What kind of question is that? And then she murmured, 'If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?

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  Mom, School, Eye

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

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  Daughter, Mother, Stranger

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.25, Vintage

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• Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy.

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  Water, Able, Rapids

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Jan 09, 2012

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

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  People, Trusting People

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.86, Vintage

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• Sólo después de que mamá desapareciera te diste cuenta de que sus historias se amontonaban dentro de ti, en pilas interminables. La vida cotidiana de mamá transcurría en un bucle repetitivo, sin descanso. Sus palabras cotidianas, en las que no pensabas profundamente y que a veces desechabas por inútiles cuando estaba contigo, se despertaban en tu corazón, creando maremotos.

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  Mom, Heart, Thinking

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.260, Vintage

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• ...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?

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  Girl, Mom, Dream

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from May 09, 2015

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• 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.

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  People, Live Your Life, World

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mother”, p.133, Hachette UK

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• How far back does one's memory of someone go?

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  Memories, Doe, Memory Of Someone

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.15, Vintage

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

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  Knowing, Way, Restraint

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• 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.

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  Mom, Mother, Track

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Mar 02, 2013

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