Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

by Suki Kim

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

Later I would wonder if it was decided in that moment that I would fall in love with them. We need to feel needed. We love the ones who want us.

takes tremendous energy to censor yourself all the time, to have to, in a sense, continually lie.