"In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible."

-- Monique Truong

#Couple Quotes #Home Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.”
“Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.”
“When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.”
“When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.”
“Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.”
“I think that you're always going to have some people who are negative or view you in a certain way.”
“There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.”
“You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.”

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