Korean Quotes

Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? There is no other word for it, no way to translate it. It is not a word. It is a way to console yourself. He is not just telling her to stand the pain, but giving her comfort, the power to do so. Chamara is an incantation, and if she listens to its sound, she believes that she can do it, that she will push through this sadness. And if she is strong about it, she'll be rewarded in the end. It is a way of saying, I know, I feel it, too. This burns my heart, too.

I'm going to go where my heart takes me, even if it's a messy road.

Ha Myung-hee (writer)

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

An Na