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Home is where they know you hurt. It is where they mourn your passing.
Only a boat that endures the storm may reach the harbor.
People make cities, and cities make people.
Jin could not be free of the attention of strangers, whether they were from kindness or curiosity. And without that freedom, there could be no equality.
But you have power. You can withstand the stares of others.
Those books were not printed into many copies as books are here. They are each unique. What use are Korean documents and books to France? They’re plunder to you but living knowledge to us. They include records of court rituals.
In one of his final letters to her, found inside the Banchon house, he had written that he had tried to find something to compare his love for her, but his world was too narrow, and he never could find anything that would suffice.