• Time passes, people leave, we become alone again.
• If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us.

pg. 126, Hanji and Youngju

• 'If life after death is eternal, why does this life exist when it's just a fleeting moment compared to eternity? Is Heaven supposed to be compensation for a life like this?'

pg. 108, Hanji and Youngju

• The fear bordering on rage in her voice was my long-time master. That fear had driven me since childhood and raised me into an adult who didn't look so precarious on the outside. It had urged me not to be me, to never stop evolving into a better person. If I didn't change, if I didn't improve, I would be erased from this world.
• Yet I chose to stay there.

pg. 99, Hanji and Youngju