• 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."

shoko's smile, choi eunyoung

• "They are four sentences we learn to say, and mean." Gamache held up his hand as a fist and raised a finger with each point. "I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was wrong'.”

Still Life, Louise Penny

• "teachers may only share with them what they have been taught or been passionate to learn about on their own.
• no one today is responsible for past events that took place historically, but we are responsible for learning about them so we do not repeat the cruelty and negatives of the past.
• students have a right and a duty to challenge authority."

Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, Paulette Steves