Quotes by : Hyeonseo Lee

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.....

I wanted to belong, like everyone else around me did, but there was no country I could say was mine.....

I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle....

My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog - it was one of the cute little breeds that people....

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But....

He’d valued his dignity more than his own life.

In her world, the law was upside down. People had to break the law to live. The prohibition on drug-dealing,....