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Han Kang Quote: “Because the girl had never learned language at all. For an hour she had held her eyes open, held them in the direction of our mother’s face, but her optic nerves never had time to awaken and so that face had remained beyond reach. For her, there would have been only a voice. Don’t die. For God’s sake don’t die. Unintelligible words, the only words she was ever to hear.”

101. “Because the girl had never learned language at all. For an hour she had held her eyes open, held them in the direction of our mother’s face, but her optic nerves never had time to awaken and so that face had remained beyond reach. For her, there would have been only a voice. Don’t die. For God’s sake don’t die. Unintelligible words, the only words she was ever to hear.”

Han Kang Quote: “After surviving that hell, would he still have been the kind of person who made choices we could understand?”

102. “After surviving that hell, would he still have been the kind of person who made choices we could understand?”

Han Kang Quote: “Dreams are terrifying things. No – they’re humiliating. They reveal things about you that you weren’t even aware of.”

103. “Dreams are terrifying things. No – they’re humiliating. They reveal things about you that you weren’t even aware of.”

Han Kang Quote: “But I don’t have a map for whatever world lies beyond death. I don’t know whether there, too, there are meetings and partings, whether we still have faces and voices, hearts with the capacity for joy as well as sorrow.”

104. “But I don’t have a map for whatever world lies beyond death. I don’t know whether there, too, there are meetings and partings, whether we still have faces and voices, hearts with the capacity for joy as well as sorrow.”

Han Kang Quote: “Work is a guarantee of solitude. Living a solitary life; you are able to let the regular rhythm of long hours of work followed by brief rest carry you through the days, with no time to fear the outer dark beyond the circle of light.”

105. “Work is a guarantee of solitude. Living a solitary life; you are able to let the regular rhythm of long hours of work followed by brief rest carry you through the days, with no time to fear the outer dark beyond the circle of light.”

Han Kang Quote: “If only she’d made a map of the route her tears used to take. If only she’d used a needle to engrave pinpricks, or even just traces of blood, over the route where the words used to flow. But, she mutters, from a place deeper than tongue and throat, that was too terrible a route.”

106. “If only she’d made a map of the route her tears used to take. If only she’d used a needle to engrave pinpricks, or even just traces of blood, over the route where the words used to flow. But, she mutters, from a place deeper than tongue and throat, that was too terrible a route.”

Han Kang Quote: “I remember the feeling of aching love, how it seeped into my skin. Clogging the marrow in my bones and shrivelling my heart... that was when I realized. That love was a terrible agony.”

107. “I remember the feeling of aching love, how it seeped into my skin. Clogging the marrow in my bones and shrivelling my heart... that was when I realized. That love was a terrible agony.”

Han Kang Quote: “Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only thing that are left behind when all else is abraded.”

108. “Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only thing that are left behind when all else is abraded.”

Han Kang Quote: “Her voice had no weight to it, like feathers.”

109. “Her voice had no weight to it, like feathers.”

Han Kang Quote: “You’re not like me, Seong-hee. You believe in a divine being, and in this thing we call humanity. You never did manage to win me over. I could never believe in the existence of a being who watches over us with consummate love. I couldn’t even make it through the Lord’s Prayer without the words drying up in my throat. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. I forgive no one, and no one forgives me.”

110. “You’re not like me, Seong-hee. You believe in a divine being, and in this thing we call humanity. You never did manage to win me over. I could never believe in the existence of a being who watches over us with consummate love. I couldn’t even make it through the Lord’s Prayer without the words drying up in my throat. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. I forgive no one, and no one forgives me.”

Han Kang Quote: “Conscience, the most terrifying thing in the world.”

111. “Conscience, the most terrifying thing in the world.”

Han Kang Quote: “When only one thing would remain to be done once that meeting was over: to separate. To part from their own bodies, and thus to part forever.”

112. “When only one thing would remain to be done once that meeting was over: to separate. To part from their own bodies, and thus to part forever.”

Han Kang Quote: “In the part that argues everything has within it that which harms it, he uses the example of how the inflammation of the eye ruins the eye and blinds it, and how rust ruins iron and completely shatters it. Why, then, isn’t the human soul, which is analogous to such things, ruined by its foolish, bad attributes?”

113. “In the part that argues everything has within it that which harms it, he uses the example of how the inflammation of the eye ruins the eye and blinds it, and how rust ruins iron and completely shatters it. Why, then, isn’t the human soul, which is analogous to such things, ruined by its foolish, bad attributes?”

Han Kang Quote: “A person had attacked her own body right in front of his eyes, tried to hack at it like it was a piece of meat; her blood had soaked his white shirt, mingling with his sweat and gradually drying to a dark brown stain.”

114. “A person had attacked her own body right in front of his eyes, tried to hack at it like it was a piece of meat; her blood had soaked his white shirt, mingling with his sweat and gradually drying to a dark brown stain.”

Han Kang Quote: “Sometimes, with some dreams, you awake and sense that the dream is ongoing elsewhere.”

115. “Sometimes, with some dreams, you awake and sense that the dream is ongoing elsewhere.”

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