what you create is creating you
“This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.”
Continue reading “The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“While a home provides shelter and a place to gather, it is also the safe place where we can express our feelings and enjoy some of the most important and meaningful events in our lives.”
Continue reading “Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life”
“Oh my God, we’re not going to burn, are we?”
“He would never comprehend what I was going through unless I told him, but he’d never look at me the same way again if I did.”
“Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.”
“It’s not so much my own death that is intolerable, it’s the death of those around me. Because I love them. And part of me dies with them. Therefore all love, if you like, is a form of suicide.”
“No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away. There’s no proximity alert, no indication that you’re standing on the precipice. And maybe that’s what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you’re least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace.”
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