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“My shadow's edges became aware of a quiet touch; the presence of another soul.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“We would lose ourselves in wondering who the other was, without hands, feet, face, tongue, our shadows touching but never quite mingling.”

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“Every time I felt a shadow slip from me, I looked up at the night sky. How I wanted to believe that cloud-wrapped half-moon was watching over me, an eye bright with intelligence—in reality nothing more than a huge, desolate lump of rock utterly inert.”

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“It was as that strange, vivid night was drawing to a close, as the faint blue light of dawn had begun to seep into the sky's black ink, that I suddenly thought of you, Dong-ho.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“Hidden birds began to trill their morning song.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“My soul-self had no eyes; where was that blood coming from, what nerve endings were sparking this pain?”

Human Acts Han Kang

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“Now there were no such things as bodies for us; presumably physical proximity was no longer necessary for the two of us to meet. But without bodies, how would we know each other? Would I still recognize my sister as a shadow?”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“All the same, there was something infinitely noble about how his body still bore the traces of hands that had touched it, a tangible record of having been cared for, been valued, that made me envious and sad.”

Human Acts Han Kang

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“From that moment on, I was filled with hatred for my body. Our bodies, tossed there like lumps of meat. Our filthy, rotting faces, reeking in the sun.”

Human Acts Han Kang

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“If I could close my eyes. If I could escape the sight of our bodies, that festering flesh now fused into a single mass, like the rotting carcass of some many-legged monster. If I could sleep, truly sleep, not this flickering haze of wakefulness. If I could plunge headlong down to the floor of my pitch-dark consciousness.”

Human Acts Han Kang

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“If I could hide in dreams. Or perhaps in memories.”

Human Acts Han Kang

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts