I'll Be Right There

by Kyung-Sook Shin

If only I had known that the moment you think everything has ended, something new is beginning.

Nor does knowledge come with the passage of time.

“I wish someone would promise me that nothing is meaningless,” he said. “I wish there were promises worth believing in. That after we’ve been hunted and lonely and anxious and living in fear, there is something else.

There are times when I am grateful for the fact of not being asked why.

everyone has his or her own means of defining value.