If I Had Your Face

by Frances Cha

Perhaps Sujin’s mother was a room salon girl too.

Is dis why sujin wanna be a room salon girl?

Actually, it would have made more sense if I had become deaf. Most of the blows landed on my ears. Although my eardrums were ruptured at the time, they have gained almost full recovery and I can hear fine. Sometimes I wonder if I can hear better than before. The wind, for instance. I don’t remember it having so many shades of sound.

What a powerful passage

I took out my compact and went back to retouching my face. How funny, the wild variety of shit some people are worrying about in life. In the past, I would have been fidgeting, ashamed and uncomfortable, while she stared at me. Now, I just wanted to slap her face. And Bruce’s too, for good measure, for calling her here.

Very distinct voices even through narration

sangyeonrae?”

A meeting of the families; no english equivalent

I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face.

I married him because I was tired and it was already too late for me, even though I was still so young.

It’s basic human nature, this need to look down on someone to feel better about yourself. There is no point in getting upset about it.

“I’m just jealous she can diet without even noticing she’s hungry,” I say flippantly, although I’m perfectly serious. He laughs and picks up his phone, texting for a minute.

This is all brilliantly written

I read somewhere that miscarriages are babies self-terminating when they know there will be a problem. It hollows me out, the way that they would rather kill themselves than be born to me.

“Oh shut up,”

How did i know she would say this

In a way, I will be glad when we are almost home and the scenery will turn into rice fields and farm plots, and I will be reminded of how far I have come, instead of what I cannot reach.

“I don’t know that what I did was so wrong,” I say. I know I shouldn’t talk about it, especially here and now, but I just can’t help myself.

Literally stop girl omg

That anyone with her privileges had no right to be unhappy.

Not nice :(

BUT BEFORE he sees her in my work, I will suck everything I can from him. I will be wild and unleashed. I will now take from him what I can. I have not heard Kyuri’s philosophies on men all this time for nothing.

Yes girl!!!

She has a face like a stone tower.

kalguksu

“Oh shut up,”

Just waiting on kyuri now

It was the first time I had spoken to him that way. Laced with venom the way that my grandmother used to talk.

sunbae

I am hoping for more than a year, although I have heard that if it goes more than a year, it becomes unpaid.

Im sorry what

This is unacceptable. I make a mental note to order weapons.

“Just go. It will do so much, trust me. Older people, that’s all they want—for others to say they are sorry and make a gesture first.”

This coming back, brilliant