EvanFlow

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“I must not forget, I thought, that I have been happy, that I am being happier than one can be. But I forgot, I’ve always forgotten.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“He could not call up the faces of his own mother and father, who had died three or four years before. He would look at a picture, and there they would be. Perhaps people were progressively harder to paint in the mind as they near one, loved by one. Perhaps clear memories came easily in proportion as they were ugly.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes