“Let us farm when it is clear and let us study when it rains.”

“At first, I just wanted to see the adults suffer as a result of wedding me to an immature Sejabin. But now, even without that, I'm glad I got married... Who knew it would be this fun to torment you? (Especially cuz you're slow-). Ah... If I keep having this much fun, I may never give you your divorce, no matter how much you beg and cry.”

“You know, unrequited love is very difficut? It's not just having this one-sided love of someone who's far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a guy who's constantly near me is harder than it would be under different circumstances.”

“One day hurt will also change into memories.”

“Don’t tell me with your eyes. Don’t scream it out with your heart. Just once say it aloud.”

“The ground with more sweats dropped on it would yield more fruit. (Achievers Are Dreamers)Let us farm when it is clear and let us study when it rains. (Park Chung-hee)”

“My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted and impatient with my sister, by the way she stopped tucking us into bed at night. I knew it from watching her feet, which began to shuffle after my father announced the move, as though they threw down invisible roots that needed to be pulled out with each step.”