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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.
“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“If I’m being honest, there’s a lot of anger. I’m angry at this old Korean woman I don’t know, that she gets to live and my mother does not,”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“everything I might regret. She was my champion, she was my archive. She had taken the utmost care to preserve the evidence of my existence and growth, capturing me in images, saving all my documents and possessions. She had all knowledge of my being memorized.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“You see, I have long understood what most women learn by fire after they are married—that the hate mothers-in-law harbor toward their daughters-in-law is built into the genres of all women in this country.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
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