Behind Five Willows Quotes

“Magpie,
You are the kind of soul
one finds only once
in a lifetime, and
travels the next thousand
searching for again
I would do that for you.
I could live and die,
searching each lifetime,
for you.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“For now, she realized, she had words, and words could fly. Words were meant to soar, to rise from the heart as the truest and most earnest expression of her deepest thoughts. Words were meant to be carried from one soul and shared.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“Truly, there was no joy quite like the pleasure of searching for her next read. Her pulse leapt, like she was wandering among countless doors, each one leading to a different world, and she was allowed to choose which story to fall into.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“The classics dictate how we ought to think. But novels speak to a longing that we are ashamed to admit.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“bitterness.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“Give her a novel, a window to look out, for the walls that hide her are too high to scale.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“Do not be as apprehensive as those soldiers of old,” she said softly, “who mistook for sounds of attack the cry of the cranes and the rustling of the wind. Fear makes us see things that are not truly there. What you are doing is not wrong. I think it is brave, and it is necessary. You said so yourself, books give our minds wings. Knowledge ought not to be feared.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“Do not be as apprehensive as those soldiers of old,” she said softly, “who mistook for sounds of attack the cry of the cranes and the rustling of the wind. Fear makes us see things that are not truly there.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“What strange power stories hold over us. Truly, I am a changed woman ever since I became a novel reader.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“Pining for each other, we can meet only in dreams; Yet while I rejoice to see you there, you rejoice to see me here. If we are to dream of each other on a night to come, Let us set out at the same time to meet on the road.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows

“Tell him you think of him, love him, and you yearn for him so desperately that...my heart has grown restless, my spirit has dissipated, and my mind cannot be easily appeased. It seems as if my bowels have been severed...'

Jade looked horrified. 'I could never write that to him.' She shook her head, looking demoralized. 'I could never imagine such a love. Can you?'

'I have no interest in a love that is capable of severing a man's bowels.”
― June Hur, Behind Five Willows