The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
ADAM JOHNSONThat hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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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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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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In 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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All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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