Quotes by : Kyung-Sook Shin

Full of questions and pleas, her eyes seemed to be asking for rescue.

...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and....

When he came home with the traditional gift of underwear bought with his first paycheck, she barely looked....

But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave....

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in....

Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships....

People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should....

Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks.....

Mom's eyes held yours for a moment. 'I don't like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked because I had to.....

I’m trying to think about what I can do. But instead all that comes to mind are the things I can’t....