“Loveliness in the form of apple-red cheeks, of comely dimples expressing delight in life's brilliance. Yet Eun-sook herself wanted nothing more than to speed up the aging process. She wanted this damned, dreary life not to drag on too long.”
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“Life was a constant skirmish.”
“Being left as the sole survivor would have been the most frightening thing.”
“It wasn't as though she'd had her mind set solely on surviving.”
“A scant hour's worth of silent despair, that was the last grace left to us as humans.”