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“Men fell in love with gumiho because they were beautiful. Then they blamed their adultery on the creatures instead of accepting their own mistakes. Maybe it happened often enough that it became normal to say gumiho lured men into cheating on their wives. And the gumiho was given a label of evil she didn’t deserve. When you’re constantly treated as a pariah and labeled bad, you might begin living up to that expectation.”
“When something’s important to you, you’re willing to give up a lot for it.
Sometimes you need to stop thinking so hard about what you get out of life and have fun.”
“Looking at life with humor doesn’t mean I don’t take it seriously. You need to be able to laugh at things, even the sad scary stuff sometimes.”
sometimes the universe works in odd ways, but family does not always come about through blood.”
It hurt to see such love when she’d never received it herself. Like picking at a wound after she’d long grown a callus over it. And now it lay open and fresh.
“I prefer fictional life. Things in the outside world are too messy.”
“Just because something doesn’t seem right to most, doesn’t mean it’s not right for you.
“My mother says gumiho are always women because we gain our power from the moon.” “And what is a man?” Jihoon asked. “Dinner.”
NOT ALL PREDATORS are monsters. But if you beat them enough, they’ll bite.
He’d wanted to see if she’d taste like rain. He suspected it was more likely she’d taste like lightning.
“That’s your problem. You want to be friends with the noble monster, but you forget that I kill to survive. I’m not a good person,” Miyoung said. “I never pretended to be.”
She was someone who killed to live, but she had a soft heart. It must have torn her apart that her very existence caused pain for others.
“People often mistake gratitude for deeper emotions.”
ISOLATION IS THE enemy of humanity. Loneliness a threat to empathy.
But love and lies do not mix well.
When you’re so used to people leaving, you start to think something might be wrong with you.
“If you die, then I’ll always remember you. That doesn’t mean I won’t live a full life. People leave us and our lives will never be the same, but if we forget them, then what does that say about how we value them?”
“Maybe it’s wrong for us to hold any one person as our whole world. Maybe . . .” Jihoon trailed off with an odd expression. “Maybe it’s wrong of us to owe all of our happiness or sadness to one person.”
