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“Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“A name, Ruth thought, could be either a ghost or a portent depending upon which side of time you were standing.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“It was true. It was unreal and my life was unreal, and Sunnyvale, which was real, was a jillion miles away in time and space, like the beautiful Earth from outer space, and me and Dad were astronauts, living in a spaceship, orbiting in the cold blackness.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Burnt-out ashes turn to fuel again.
Whose lamp is my heart that burns
Flickering all night long?”
― Yongun Han

“My soul years for something infinite as
that of children frolicking on the riverbank.
Tell me what it is you are craving for, where you
are headed. I am impatient to know.
Soaked in the smell of the greening earth
I walk all day long limping between the green of sorrow
and joy as if possessed by the spirit of spring.
But now that the land is no more our own
spring can no longer be our own.”
― Yi Sang-hwa, Does Spring Come Also to These Ravished Fields?

“Despite my lifelong wish to live
like an immaculate petal
what shall I do
with the doleful fountain
that wells out
from the deep woods of my heart?”
― Shin Sokch'o

“Is it this very suffering flesh
that is only real?
This very self that exists for a brief spell,
thus frame that flow flooded with the use of life,
a mere flowerbud that burns with pure desire,
an illusory butterfly worn with cares.”
― Shin Sokch'o

“Under the dome of boundless universe,
under the dome of boundless cosmos
my body is but a flower that blooms and blasts.”
― Shin Sokch'o

“O water! O flowing water! O overflowing water!
What a bliss that your body is broken loose!
Never to be hardened into any form, your body is free
from worldly desires and sorrow.”
― Shin Sokch'o

“In this quietude
I could almost count those autumnal stars,
yet I may not count them off one by one,
because the dawn will soon break,
because I have still tomorrow night,
because my youth is not yet done.”
― Yun Dong-ju

“Faith in life is not an abstract idea to the Buddhist. Faith in life is faith that as long as one foot precedes the other, the journey will be accomplished. So the priest advises us to "walk on!" We should proceed with our lives as we find them - seeing with the eyes, smelling with the nose, hearing with the ears, and touching with the fingers. When we derive satisfaction from seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching -- from sleeping and walking - from the everyday experience of life, then we are able to enjoy the resignation that comes from enlightenment.”
― John McVittie, The Beautiful and the Grotesque

“There is no technical means of reproduction that, up to now, has managed to surpass the mirror and the dream.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“How can I do this? How can I leave everything known? How can I leave language and belonging and familiar faces, faces that look like mine? How can I leave this patch of earth that has been mine? Samson taught me once that the hydrangea blooms in a range of shades depending on the soil it sinks its roots into. From faintest pink to darkest night blue, the flower reflects the acidity of its patch of earth. How am I different? This person I am, will I be killed in the transition across the planet? What new person will emerge in that other soil?”
― Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between Us