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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 349cce7 | lesson began--more of a get-to-know-you | Suki Kim | ||
| e25d84b | Resignation is a habit, and it is contagious. It | Suki Kim | ||
| d6cef3f | This was always the case with North Korea. It was like the bad boyfriend whose presence could never be depended on, so you always had to seize the opportunity to spend time with him when he made himself available. | Suki Kim | ||
| b6c57eb | I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing. | Suki Kim | ||
| e7e409c | For those of us raised by mothers and fathers who experienced such trauma firsthand, it is impossible not to continue this remembering. I | Suki Kim | ||
| e706373 | No way. Don't touch that. If their book said it was true, you can't tell them that it's a lie. | Suki Kim | ||
| 7c8c2d5 | I feel a greater obligation, both as a writer and as someone deeply concerned about the future of Korea, to tell the stark truth about the DPRK, in hopes that the lives of average North Koreans, including my beloved students, will one day improve. | Suki Kim | ||
| 2bacfc7 | One thing was clear. Their collective decision to switch their essay topics to condemn America seemed to have been compelled by the articles about Zuckerberg. | Suki Kim | ||
| 8d197cf | For a moment, I felt a pang of envy. I remembered those few drifting years after college, taking off alone with a backpack to explore the world. I thought I was playing a dare with life then, challenging my limits, but I was scared most of the time and wept for no clear reason in dingy hostel rooms across Europe and Central America. But the years had worked their magic, and that scared girl I had been in that remote place in time had dissol.. | Suki Kim | ||
| 678a56a | Never hint that there is something wrong with their country. | Suki Kim | ||
| 69f3e7f | Be careful with your terminology: Great Leader, Dear Leader, Precious Leader. Those names have to be carefully used, or better yet, just stay away from discussing them at all. | Suki Kim | ||
| ef794fa | We accepted our situation meekly. How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence. In this world, there were no individual demands, and asking permission for everything was infantilizing. So we began to understand our students, who had never been able to do anything on their own. The notion of following your heart's desire, of going.. | Suki Kim | ||
| 1344ef7 | I sang along, but I could not help noticing that if you replaced the word Jesus with Great Leader, the content was not so different from some of the North Korean songs my students chanted several times each day. | Suki Kim | ||
| 16e9934 | But no phrase puzzled them more than Social Security deduction. | Suki Kim | ||
| 90f8cd7 | The past was all right there before me: generations of Koreans separated by division; decades of longing, loss, hurt, regret, guilt. | Suki Kim | ||
| 9d5997c | And all that followed fell like mercury to hell. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 1076188 | So what do you say, your coffin or mine? | Alkaline Trio | ||
| e2e6eda | It is the nature of things that many people are more interested in affixing blame than fixing the problem | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| ecbde26 | All of reality as we know it is but an illusion, a dream of some agency we can barely comprehend. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| a857598 | The universe collapsed and came crashing down upon them. It | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 95c6c8c | Meet your sorrows head on, and after you've wrestled with them, put them behind. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| a6e88c3 | Nicholas stopped her again. "So you tried to kill her?" "Only a little. I would have stopped before she was completely dead." | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 4143bb3 | should you chance to find yourself exchanging pleasantries with a moredhel woman again, she'd as soon cut your heart out as kiss you. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| d4593b5 | among man's strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 51a1e2e | Of course we'll be there." After Amos left, Ghuda shook his head. In a sour tone he muttered, "Why are we going to Crydee, Ghuda? I haven't the vaguest idea, Ghuda. Shall we go find Nakor, Ghuda? Certainly, Ghuda. Then shall we strangle him, Ghuda?" With a single nod of his head, he answered himself, "With great delight, Ghuda." | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| a9a4eba | The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. For those who live centuries, it's a very important choice. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| a91eb44 | A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| cf6e116 | My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us. | fate-and-fortune | Raymond E. Feist | |
| a48b9ea | No, killing a man is fairly easy. It is killing him and not getting caught that makes it difficult. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| de08ace | Just remember that in most things, right or wrong depends on where you're standing at the moment. My father's people would have thought having your life's mate picked out for you by your parents to be ... well, barbaric." As Talon's expression started to darken, Caleb added, "No offense intended, but I'm pointing out that things look the way they do because that is how you were taught as a child. And the rest of the world is vastly differen.. | perception social-mores | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 913c3a6 | I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty." "Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily," | jaded | Raymond E. Feist | |
| c6a7382 | Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path. | vivid-imagery | Raymond E. Feist | |
| d8d9418 | History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned." | perspective victors | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 9ebb806 | Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people's honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart from the people. | oaths-and-promises | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 9d0c890 | It's tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared to the simple fact of existence, to the power of life and how it hangs on, we are nothing. | perspective-on-life roles-in-life | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 0782043 | A man makes choices," Tal said. "True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered." | choices-and-consequences perspective | Raymond E. Feist | |
| f559cea | Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar's death would not bring back his father, Elk's Call at Dawn, or his mother, Whisper of the Night Wind. His brother, Hand of the Sun, and his little sister Miliana would remain dead. The only time he would hear the voice of his grandfather, Laughter in His Eyes, would be in his memory. Nothing would change. No farmer outside Krondor would suddenly stand up in wonder and say, "A wrong has been .. | perspective revenge | Raymond E. Feist | |
| d27daf2 | Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly. | virtues-and-vices | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 36126fc | He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned. | perspective | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 84611ec | Have you ever wronged a man . . . just to do him harm? Or have you always had a reason?' Kaspar answered quickly. 'There was always a reason.' 'There you have it,' said Samas as he sat down. He motioned for Kaspar to fetch over a cup of water for him. 'You would never look at yourself as "evil" no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It's in our nature. And that's the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by thos.. | nature-of-evil perspective | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 7f04f30 | It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in others. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 6ea7cad | why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?' 'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times. | subterfuge wisdom | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 180d3a4 | Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret. | regret wisdom | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 81d9dce | Greska je u coveku ili zeni, a ne u biti vaseljene. | Raymond E. Feist |