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Top 15 Kyung-sook Shin Quotes (2024 Update)

Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “If there were no sea between you and me... there wouldn’t be this painful goodbye.”

1. “If there were no sea between you and me... there wouldn’t be this painful goodbye.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Taking his hand and letting it go was my way of saying goodbye.”

2. “Taking his hand and letting it go was my way of saying goodbye.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual – if one thinks about it, it’s really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn’t think things through.”

3. “Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual – if one thinks about it, it’s really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn’t think things through.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “You never wondered, Did Mom like being in the kitchen?”

4. “You never wondered, Did Mom like being in the kitchen?”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “You eat breakfast, then it’s lunch, and then it’s dinner, and when it’s bright again it’s breakfast again. It might have been better if I could have made different side dishes, but since the same things were planted in the fields, I always made the same panchan. If you do that over and over, there are times when you get so sick of it. When the kitchen felt like a prison, I went out the back and picked up the most misshapen jar lid and threw it as hard as I could at the wall.”

5. “You eat breakfast, then it’s lunch, and then it’s dinner, and when it’s bright again it’s breakfast again. It might have been better if I could have made different side dishes, but since the same things were planted in the fields, I always made the same panchan. If you do that over and over, there are times when you get so sick of it. When the kitchen felt like a prison, I went out the back and picked up the most misshapen jar lid and threw it as hard as I could at the wall.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Leave her be,” he said. “She’ll stop when she’s ready.”

6. “Leave her be,” he said. “She’ll stop when she’s ready.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Time is always bearing down on us; nevertheless, had I understood in my youth that we can never relive the same moment twice, things might have turned out differently. Had I understood that, I would never have said goodbye to someone, and someone else might still be alive. If only I had known that the moment you think everything has ended, something new is beginning.”

7. “Time is always bearing down on us; nevertheless, had I understood in my youth that we can never relive the same moment twice, things might have turned out differently. Had I understood that, I would never have said goodbye to someone, and someone else might still be alive. If only I had known that the moment you think everything has ended, something new is beginning.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “History is in charge of putting things in order and society is in charge of defining them. The more order we achieve, the more truth is hidden behind that neat surface... Perhaps literature is about throwing into disarray what has been defined... About making a mess of things, all over again.”

8. “History is in charge of putting things in order and society is in charge of defining them. The more order we achieve, the more truth is hidden behind that neat surface... Perhaps literature is about throwing into disarray what has been defined... About making a mess of things, all over again.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “It seems that whether we are aware of it or not, memory carries a dagger in its breast.”

9. “It seems that whether we are aware of it or not, memory carries a dagger in its breast.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “If I opened my mouth to say a single word, all of the other expired words would have followed and spilled to the ground, as if the string that held them together had snapped.”

10. “If I opened my mouth to say a single word, all of the other expired words would have followed and spilled to the ground, as if the string that held them together had snapped.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned houses.”

11. “She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned houses.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Try thinking of sleep as a kind of rebirth.”

12. “Try thinking of sleep as a kind of rebirth.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Back then, he and I were always waiting for each other.”

13. “Back then, he and I were always waiting for each other.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “I wish someone would promise me that nothing is meaningless,” he said. “I wish there were promises worth believing in. That after we’ve been hunted and lonely and anxious and living in fear, there is something else. Considering the way we are living right now, if we were young at the end of our lives instead, then maybe our dreams could come true.”

14. “I wish someone would promise me that nothing is meaningless,” he said. “I wish there were promises worth believing in. That after we’ve been hunted and lonely and anxious and living in fear, there is something else. Considering the way we are living right now, if we were young at the end of our lives instead, then maybe our dreams could come true.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change.”

15. “Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “We each get one life that is our own. We each in our own way struggle to get ahead, love, grieve, and lose our loved ones to death.”

16. “We each get one life that is our own. We each in our own way struggle to get ahead, love, grieve, and lose our loved ones to death.”

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Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “Father wept as he recalled that one spring day, when they shared for lunch the scabbard fish that Mom had cooked in the morning and, stomachs full, napped together, stretched out. He said that back then he didn’t know that this was happiness.”

17. “Father wept as he recalled that one spring day, when they shared for lunch the scabbard fish that Mom had cooked in the morning and, stomachs full, napped together, stretched out. He said that back then he didn’t know that this was happiness.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

Kyung-sook Shin Quote: “He said that the plane was too fast, that his body had arrived fast. That he was just ill because his soul could not keep pace with the speed of the plane and was still on its way home, and he would feel better once his soul had caught up.”

18. “He said that the plane was too fast, that his body had arrived fast. That he was just ill because his soul could not keep pace with the speed of the plane and was still on its way home, and he would feel better once his soul had caught up.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

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