Flashlight Quotes

“Love is, perhaps, the sensation of expertise that erupts out of nowhere, and as time goes on accumulates enough soil at its feet to be standing on something.”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Time is not a river moving ceaselessly into the future but a stagnated pool. Breathing at its surface”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“the photo with its particular edges and creases and its sad otherworldly brightness”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“As the door banged shut and the clang of the bolt came again”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“In dreams”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Anne wondered if these nonsense broadcasts were still crossing that body of water for which each nation had its own name. Koreans called it the East Sea”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“They had left her mother all alone”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Not for the first time”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Waku realized this”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“because southern Korea was a place of sheer chaos”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“She was allowed to spend a few days with the baby while the adoption papers were put in order. Every breath she took”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Someday”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“With caution”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity Edward W. Wagner, The Korean Minority in Japan, 1904–1950 Sakie Yokota, North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter Kim Yong, Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Meek Assertion of Collective Dismay?—”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight