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“I didn’t know the comforting words she probably longed for the way I long for them now. I didn’t know then the type of effort it can take to simply move.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“I wished I could go back there then, back before I knew of a single bad thing.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“I’m searching for memories. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“How cyclical and bittersweet for a child to retrace the image of their mother. For a subject to turn back to document their archivist.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Now, more than ever, I wished desperately for a way to transfer pain, wished I could prove to my mother just how much I
loved her, that I could just crawl into her hospital cot and press my body
close enough to absorb her burden. It seemed only fair that life should
present such an opportunity to prove one’s filial piety.”
― Crying in H Mart
loved her, that I could just crawl into her hospital cot and press my body
close enough to absorb her burden. It seemed only fair that life should
present such an opportunity to prove one’s filial piety.”
― Crying in H Mart
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