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the_ragtag_reader's Reviews (271)
“The web of deceit can stretch far and wide, but it cannot escape the probing eyes of truth.”
“How we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.’
“Because I’m here! And why not! Aye, our lives are short and shaped by circumstance, and maybe we can’t control most of what’s to come. But we can control how we feel. We can savor the sweetness of a blackberry scone, and the company of our friends, and the warmth of the summer wind at night, and be grateful for it. We can be nothing, and choose to be miserable about it, like you—or we can be nothing, but choose to be happy, and let that be purpose enough. Which sounds more worthwhile to you?”
“There is no light for those who do not know darkness. Live on and endure the shadows and brightness will come your way.”
“I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been.”
“In the darkness before the yut sticks do their work, Jun-su thought, we are nothing: neither Cat, nor fox, nor Yankee bastard, nor troll, nor pure-blooded descendant of Tangun. In the moment before you first drew breath, you were only quickening pulse, one point in an unthinkable vastness of stars. Who decided how it had to be? Who chose your destiny?”
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“After considering several possibilities, the astute detective determined that the lovers must’ve walked into the Guggenheim at the precise instant in which the museum entered the dimension of dreams, and they unwittingly fell into a time that is not marked by clocks.”
