"All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people."

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Source : Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mother”, p.133, Hachette UK

Shin Kyung-sook

#People Quotes #Live Your Life Quotes #World Quotes

“My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.”
“He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?”
“I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.”
“But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com
“This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.”
“To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.”
“When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.”

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