Apartment Women Quotes

“You don't fight as a stress-reliver. You end up fighting because things aren't working out the way you want them to. You can't live like that, fighting every other day.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, Apartment Women

“She felt like a ball being smacked around in three-cushion billiards, and if she didn't do something soon, both about this feeling and her rage toward Sangnak, who was doing a whole lot of nothing despite having signed them up for this, she would go insane.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, Apartment Women

“Life can't be quantified and divided. You can't approach it by saying, I'm thinking about this one issue this much, so you have to think about it exactly this much too.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, Apartment Women

“A child's work was to pass the time in any way possible while steadily growing the number of cells in their body. An adult's work was to watch that child and mostly to suffer through that time, to let it pass by, then turn a new page. You'd encourage the child to draw an odd new shape. To colour it an unexpected hue. All while your own existence grew fuzzier by the day, until you were reduced to a sketch of yourself, and in the end, you were rubbed out by an eraser.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, Apartment Women

“Trivial things weren't so trivial when they piled up, not a corn on the sole of a foot or dust heaped on a forgotten shelf.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, Apartment Women