“Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.”

“You lie long enough and you start to get used to it.”

“The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.”

“Everything matters.Everything you do touches someone in some way, even though you might not understand that.”

“It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.”

“Kyung-sook's mother had taken it as an example that even if you started with nothing, with enough studying, one could accomplish everything.”