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“Books bring colour to my simple life and if I have a book in my hands, it feels like I'm always connected with the world. Whether I'm bored, lonely, upset, depressed, books soothe me and everything feels all right again.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

“I would leave everything here: the valleys, the hills, the paths, and the jaybirds from the gardens, I would leave here the petcocks and the padres, heaven and earth, spring and fall, I would leave here the exit routes, the evenings in the kitchen, the last amorous gaze, and all of the city-bound directions that make you shudder, I would leave here the thick twilight falling upon the land, gravity, hope, enchantment, and tranquility, I would leave here those beloved and those close to me, everything that touched me, everything that shocked me, fascinated and uplifted me, I would leave here the noble, the benevolent, the pleasant, and the demonically beautiful, I would leave here the budding sprout, every birth and existence, I would leave here incantation, enigma, distances, inexhaustibility, and the intoxication of eternity; for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me from here, because I've looked into what's coming, and I don't need anything from here.”
― László Krasznahorkai”
― László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On

“We read because we want to be understood. And don't we all wish that the person we love will be able to see the pain we are carrying? And when the characters in the novel hug each other, somehow it feels like we're being comforted too.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

“I am the first and the last, I am the honored and the mocked, I am the whore and the Holy One, the wife and the virgin, the mother and the daughter. I am a barren woman with many children. I am the silence that is incomprehensible. I am the voice whose sounds are many. I am wisdom and ignorance. I am shy and proud. I am disgraced and I am great. I am compassionate and cruel. I am witness and wise. You who deny me know me.”
― Nikki Marmery