The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng Quotes

“On the thirteenth day, Heaven and Earth clashed and the sun and the moon turned black.”
― Lady Hyegyeong, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea

“Whether I wish to live or die, I can do neither.”
― Lady Hyegyeong, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea

“Where I wish to live or die, I can do neither.”
― Lady Hyegyeong, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea

“I often had a knife in my hand, but the thought of my son always prevented me from actually killing myself.”
― Lady Hyegyeong, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea