Beasts of a Little Land

by Juhea Kim

It’s an uncanny thing—inyeon. If it’s not meant to be, you can’t hold on to people no matter how hard you try. Some people you love deeply will turn into a stranger in an instant, if the inyeon has run its course. And sometimes people will be attached to you forever despite all likelihood.

life is not about what keeps you safe, but what you keep safe, and that’s what matters the most.

EVERYONE DREAMS, BUT ONLY SOME PEOPLE ARE DREAMERS. THE NON-DREAMERS,

“I thought the owner was just a dandy,” she said after a long pause. “Soft hands, pretty hair.” “People are brave in different ways, Jade.”

Everywhere around them, life was happening without their knowing, and their lives were also happening in the presence of all else. All existences were touching lightly as air and leaving invisible fingerprints.

I saw the world as a system laid out by intelligent and important people, and I was going to be one of them. But now I realize what a fool I’ve been. That system is nothing but that which brings destruction.”

Fuck war, and fuck loneliness. Stay alive.”

Life is only bearable because time makes you forget everything. But life is worthwhile because love makes you remember everything.