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

“In dreams, there is sometimes the knowledge of knowledge, with- ut the knowledge itse|f And it's very like waking, with the knowl edge of the dream, but no clear recollection. Some phantasm, flirting its tail as it whips out of sight.”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“unjustly downtrodden took up arms and fierce miens, but equally often they turned the other cheek, studied harder, camouflaged themselves ever more behind obedience and merit and bided their time, believing against all evidence that the future would bring something better, for them if for nobody else. He tried to be”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Someday, you’ll feel thankful to your mother,” he tells her. “But I want you to act thankful now.”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“Together they gaze down at the syllable block”
― Susan Choi, Flashlight

“of”
― 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