The Second Chance Convenience Store Quotes

“결국 삶은 관계였고 관계는 소통이었다. 행복은 멀리 있지 않고 내 옆에 사람들과 마음을 나누는 데 있음을 이제 깨달았다.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, 불편한 편의점

“They say they have the right to do whatever they want, but hey, that's not how life works. Life's not meant to be comfortable and convenient all the time.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“손님한테.. 친절하게 하시던데.. 가족한테도.. 손님한테 하듯 하세요. 그럼.. 될 겁니다.“ ... 따지고 보면 가족도 인생이란 여정에서 만난 서로의 손님 아닌가? 귀빈이건 불청객이건 손님으로만 대해도 서로 상처 두는 일은 없을 터였다.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, 불편한 편의점

“When Bob Dylan was young, his grandmother told him that happiness isn’t on the road to anything. She said happiness is the road. And that we should be kind because everyone’s fighting a hard battle.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“They say they have the right to do whatever they want, but hey, that's not how life works. Life's not meant to be comfortable and convenient all the time.”
― Ho-yeon Kim, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“What happens when you're lost in a single thought, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week? And what if that thought is wrapped in excruciating memories? The more your brain soaks in the pain, the heavier it gets, and then you fall into the endless sea of sadness, and this brain turns into a massive anchor, dragging you down into the abyss. So, you're breathing differently - not through your nose, mouth or gills - yet you insist you're still human, though you're living as something less. You try to forget drowning you brain with alcohol, even ignoring hunger, but most of your memories evaporate, leaving you unable to say who you even are.”
― Ho-yeon Kim, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“The drive to face and overcome personal traumas shaped a persons motivations and defined their character. To reveal a character, one simply needed to show the path they choose at life's crossroads.”
― Ho-yeon Kim, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“Alcohol became my only refuge. I had to stay drunk constantly, eventually becoming incapable of functioning in daily life. I reached a point where I needed to find myself before finding my wife and daughter again.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“I had tried to build a family of my own, different from the miserable home of my youth, but now everything was in ruins. I couldn't sleep without drinking myself into oblivion.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“Did she think I was enjoying this? That working at that clinic wasn't eating me up inside? I was putting up with it for their sake, to give them a good life. How else were we supposed to live? Life wasn't easy. There were always losers and victims, and I was breaking my back for this family.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“In the end, life boiled down to relationships, and relationships to communication.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“In the end, weren't family members like customers you meet on life's journey? Treating them with the courtesy we extend to customers, whether they were model ones or pains in the ass, might stop us from hurting each other. I'd just blurted what had come to mind, but I feel relived my advice seemed to help. But could it apply to me too? Did I even deserve to be a customer?”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“I admired her relentless energy for the work she wanted me to do. Curious, I'd ask what drove her. She said life was essentially a series of problems to solve. And since we're solving them anyway, we might as well pick the more interesting ones to tackle.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“But getting back on track wasn't easy, and this world wasn't the kind of place where staying on track guaranteed you'd end up somewhere good. I didn't have much to say, so I just listened. I wondered how desperate she must have been to spill all this to me.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, The Second Chance Convenience Store

“따지고 보면 가족도 인생이란 여정에서 만난 서로의 손님 아닌가? 귀빈이건 불청객이건 손님으로만 대해도 서로 상처 두는 일은 없을 터였다.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, 불편한 편의점

“나는 자기가 하고자 하는 일에 절대 지치지 않는 그녀의 에너지가 부러웠다. 그래서 물었다. 대체 당신을 지탱하는 힘은 무엇이냐고? 그녀가 말했다. 인생은 원래 문제 해결의 연속이니까요. 그리고 어차피 풀어야 할 문제라면, 그나마 괜찮은 문제를 고르려고 노력할 따름이고요.”
― Kim Ho-yeon, 불편한 편의점