• Joe asked me, "Is your mom still alive?"

language of flowers, lee eunji

• "Do I come up in your writing?
• "Whatever I write, I think of you, Sunbae. Look carefully. It's all you."

pg.154, A Song from Afar

• "If you couldn't share someone's pain, if you didn't have the guts to survive a difficult stretch with them, it was better to choose heartlessness over half-hearted affection. That was Grandma's way."
• "The world sneered at anyone's love for another person, the desperate wish to give one's own life over and over again if it meant saving the life of another. The world said: loving others isn't worth a penny, you weaklings better watch out; what does it matter... / The were murdered by the state."