I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
ADAM JOHNSONIn my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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