Hyejin

“It is not true that the dead cannot be folded. Square becomes kite becomes swan; history becomes rumor becomes song. Even the act of remembrance creases the truth. What the paper-folding diagrams fail to mention is that each fold enacts itself upon the secret marrow of your ethics, the axioms of your thoughts. Whether this is the most important thing the diagrams fail to mention is a matter of opinion.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“The thought of life without her makes me feel like I’m trapped inside a cave.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, I'll Be Right There

“As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Amrita

“I have loved you in your own language, Kaela thought as she picked up her blades, so softly that we never knew it. Let your language be mine; let me cast my own shadows.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows