“I have always thought of hope as a natural folly of youth that should be discarded as soon as possible. It is inexplicable to me, and I did not know I was capable of surprising myself. Perhaps I liked him more than I realized. I should have known that I could not afford to.” Sad Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face
“It's not an original thought perhaps, but I think people watch so much TV because life would otherwise be unbearable. Unless you are born into a chaebol family or your parents were the fantastically lucky who purchased land in Gangnam decades ago, you have to work and work and work for a salary that isn't even enough to buy a house or pay for childcare, and you sit at a desk until your spine twists, and your boss is somehow incompetent and a workaholic at the same time and at the end of the day you have to drink to bear it all. But I grew up not knowing the difference between a bearable life and an unbearable life, and by the time I discovered there was such a thing, it was too late.” Sad Book:If I Had Your Face Source: If I Had Your Face
“When I ask her if she ever wants to get married, she snorts. "Not meant to be," she says, blinking her mink-like eyelashes and wondering out loud at my rudeness for even raising the subject to her. But Kyuri is still the one out of all of us--even including the impressionable Sujin who lives in front of the TV--who cries the most when one of the characters has to leave the other for martyr-like reasons.” RomanceSad Author:Frances Cha