Almond

by Sohn Won-Pyung

smelling musty books was. Books took me to places I could never go otherwise. They shared the confessions of people I’d never met and lives I’d never witnessed. The emotions I could never feel, and the events I hadn’t experienced could all be found in those volumes.

Everyone thinks “ordinary” is easy and all, but how many of them would actually fit into the so-called smooth road the word implied?

There is no such person who can’t be saved. There are only people who give up on trying to save others.

God had given the face of an angel to the wrong person.