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‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.
“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“Now that she was gone, I began to study her like a stranger, rooting around her belongings in an attempt to rediscover her, trying to bring her back to life in any way that I could. In my grief I was desperate to construe the slightest thing as a sign.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“I am glad then that I will never love someone again in this way. I would not survive a second time.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“The memories I stored, I could not let festered. Could not let trauma infiltrate and spread, to spoil and render them useless. They were moments to be tended. The culture we shared I was active, effervescent in my gut and in my genes, and I had to seize it, foster it so it did not die in me. So that I could pass it on someday. The lessons she imparted, the proof of her life lived on in me, and in every move and deed. I was what she left behind. If I could not be with my mother, I would be her.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Sometimes when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and touched a burning star, and it is both unendurable and terrifying.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
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