Winter in Sokcho Quotes

“Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war that's been going on for so long people have stopped believing it's real. They build hotels, put up neon signs, but it's all fake, we're on a knife-edge, it could all give way any moment. We're living in limbo. In the winter that never ends.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“People always think they have time.’
‘I’m only twenty-four.’
‘Exactly.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“I didn’t want to be his eyes in my world. I wanted to be seen. I wanted him to see me with his own eyes.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“He’d never understand what Sokcho was like. You had to be born here, live through the winters. The smells, the octopus. The isolation.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“That was Sokcho, always waiting, for tourists, boats, men, spring”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“Wifi password: ilovesokcho”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“How do you know when a story is done?"
"My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“For five hundred won, you could gaze at North Korea. I slid a coin in the slot. It was so cold our eyelids stuck to the metal frames. To the right, the ocean. To the left, a wall of mountains. Ahead of us, fog. Not much a of a view, but what could you expect with this weather?”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“What I mean is you may have had your wars, I’m sure there are scars on your beaches, but that’s all in the past. Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war that’s been going on for so long people have stopped believing it’s real. They build hotels, put up neon signs, but it’s all fake, we’re on a knife-edge, it could all give way any moment. We’re living in limbo. In a winter that never ends.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war that’s been going on for so long people have stopped believing it’s real.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“How do you know when a story is done?’
‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“I needed peace and quiet.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“He arrived bundled up in a woolen coat.

And the man on the waves, feeling his way through the winter, Slipping passively beneath the waves, an afterimage in his wake, a woman’s shoulder, belly, breast, the small of her back, the lines tapering to become a mere stroke of the pen, a thread of ink on the thigh, and on the thigh a long, fine scar carved with a brush on the scales of a fish.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho