Luminous Quotes

“When a firefly dies, they can send out a signal even after they're gone.”
― Silvia Park, Luminous

“Everybody around you is going to die, of course, and to survive that loss, crushing every time, you had to piece your splintering self back together. But children are still ships that have yet to be built, and now this boy was forced to float in his own wreckage.”
― Silvia Park, Luminous

“We may be their parents but they will not be our children. —Bryan Appleyard”
― Silvia Park, Luminous

“She believed in the trillions of tenuous threads tying the self to the rest. 物我一體. Matter and I are One. The grace of union so the swimmer flowed with the ocean”
― Silvia Park, Luminous

“I’m sorry your date was so unkind.”

“I don’t care about that. I sat on the toilet after to take a breather. And then it flushed at me. The toilet was acting so damn hostile, I put my foot through it. The bowl shattered like sugar, which was kind of cool. I felt like a superhero, but I also broke the toilet.”
― Silvia Park, Luminous

“I purchased a bolt of skyn in her coloring and stapled it to the canvas. It burns like human skin. But you can smell the preservatives. Like chicken Nuggets.”
“Why didn't you replace the skin on her back?”
“Couldn’t you have replaced the flesh on your face?”
He ducked his head. “Okay, good point.”
“Is it a war injury?”
“It was a robot, carrying an IED until she dropped it. Homemade bomb.”
She stared at him, wide burning eyes. “How must you despise them.”
― Silvia Park, Luminous