A Quote About Trying to Find Your Face Again
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"I would live your life and then much better than you, if I had your face."
― If I Had Your Face
"Rich people are fascinated past happiness," she said. "It's something they detect maddening."
― If I Had Your Face
"Most people accept no capacity for comprehending true darkness, and then they effort to prepare information technology anyway."
― If I Had Your Face
"I volition build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will get a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.
I will non come out of this with nothing."
― If I Had Your Face up
"In New York, you can talk to anyone well-nigh anything at any fourth dimension and have a conversation so long you'll fall a little in honey with that person, and so never run across them again."
― If I Had Your Face
"For all its millions of people, Korea is the size of a fishbowl and someone is always looking downward on someone else. That's just the manner information technology is in this country, and the reason why people ask a series of rapid-burn questions the minute they run across you. Which neighborhood do you live in? Where did you go to schoolhouse? Where do yous piece of work? Practise you know so-and-so? They pinpoint where you are on the national calibration of status, and so spit you out in a heartbeat."
― If I Had Your Face
"...yous have to work and piece of work and work for a salary that isn't even enough to buy a house or pay for childcare, and yous sit at a desk-bound until your spine twists, and your dominate is somehow incompetent and a workaholic at the same fourth dimension and at the end of the day you have to drink to bear information technology all."
― If I Had Your Face
"In America, one of my professors said once that the best fine art comes from an unbearable life—if you lot live through it, that is."
― If I Had Your Face
"Why would you want to bring more children into this world and then that they tin can endure and exist stressed their entire lives? And they'll disappoint y'all and you will want to die. And you lot'll be poor"
― If I Had Your Face
"Information technology's basic human nature, this need to wait down on someone to feel amend about yourself."
― If I Had Your Face
"I accept no desire to stay by midnight every dark for a visitor that treats me like an ant to exist crushed by the heel of a shoe."
― If I Had Your Face up
"I know, because I was in love with a poor man once. He could not pay to spend time with me and I could not afford to spend time with him."
― If I Had Your Face
"I wanted to reach out and shake her by the shoulders. End running around like a fool, I wanted to say. You have and so much and you lot can do anything you want.
I would live your life so much improve than you, if I had your face."
― If I Had Your Face
"I want them to call back I'grand stupid," she said to me in one case. "No expectation is nice. It gives you a lot of fourth dimension to call up."
― If I Had Your Face
"But I grew up not knowing the divergence betwixt a bearable life and an unbearable life, and by the fourth dimension I discovered there was such a thing, it was too late."
― If I Had Your Face
"I AM GLAD, so, that I will never love someone again in this way. I would not survive a second time. In America, one of my professors said once that the all-time art comes from an unbearable life – if you alive through information technology, that is."
― If I Had Your Face
"Sometimes, when he is belongings me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real subsequently this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and touched a burning star, and it is both bearable and terrifying."
― If I Had Your Face
"The thought of you lot alone in life, no children, that is what is making me onetime and sick."
― If I Had Your Face
"that the hate mothers-in-police force harbor toward their daughters-in-police is congenital into the genes of all women in this country. The bile festers below the surface, fallow but nonetheless lurking, until the son becomes of marriageable age; the resentment at being pushed aside, the acrimony of condign second in their sons' angel. It was not only my grandmother; I have seen information technology time and time again. That is the one storyline"
― If I Had Your Face up
"The merely gentlemen I ever come across are in those dramas on TV. Those men are kind. They protect yous and cry and stand up to their families for yous"
― If I Had Your Face
"She doesn't sympathise that I volition never take the capacity to shoulder the responsibility of another life when I am scrambling similar a madman in my ain."
― If I Had Your Face
"Wouldn't it be wonderful to go to sleep at night and wake up rich every twenty-four hours?"
― If I Had Your Face up
"In a manner, I will exist glad when we are virtually home and the scenery will plough into rice fields and farm plots, and I volition be reminded of how far I take come up, instead of what I cannot reach."
― If I Had Your Face
"Speaking of those hoity-toity doctors and pharmacists who run their clinics in districts like Miari and profit off the working girls and their sicknesses—they are no better than the gutter trash who come effectually selling lubricants and "handmade" dresses to the girls to wear in our glass showrooms that light up red in the night."
― If I Had Your Face
"For my female parent, who taught me how to hold on to a dream"
― If I Had Your Face
"Men these days are actually much ameliorate than previous generations—the ones who used to bring mistresses into the firm and make their wives feed and care for their bounder children."
― If I Had Your Confront
"Us girls, nosotros take been trained for years: "Say that you were the one who wanted to slumber with the customer. You just wanted some money. Got it?" And then the daughter gets jailed and fined for prostitution, and vilified in society as someone who does this for like shooting fish in a barrel coin. The girls who dice in the procedure—the ones who are beaten to death or the ones who kill themselves—they don't even make the news."
― If I Had Your Face
"You meet, I have long understood what most women learn past burn down after they are married—that the detest mothers-in-law harbor toward their daughters-in-constabulary is congenital into the genes of all women in this country. The bile festers below the surface, dormant only still lurking, until the son becomes of marriageable age; the resentment at existence pushed aside, the anger of becoming second in their sons' affections."
― If I Had Your Face
"She doesn't understand that I will never have the chapters to shoulder the responsibleness of another life when I am scrambling like a madman in my own."
― If I Had Your Face up
"IN THE ORIGINAL STORY, the trivial mermaid endures unspeakable hurting to proceeds her homo legs. The Sea Witch warns her that her new feet will feel as if she is walking on whetted blades, but she will be able to dance like no human has always danced before. And and so she drinks the witch's potion, which slices through her trunk like a sword.
What I want to say, is that she danced divinely with her beautiful legs, even through the pain of a k knives. She was able to walk and run and stay shut to her beloved prince, and even when things didn't work out with him, that wasn't the betoken.
And in the end, after she said adieu to her prince and flung herself into the sea, expecting to disintegrate into bounding main foam, she was carried away by the children of light and air.
ISN'T THAT a beautiful story?"
― If I Had Your Face
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