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81 " The peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one, and they kept themselves from indulging him too much. "
― Lee Min-jin , Pachinko
82 " The Lord continues to be committed to us even when we sin. He continues to love us. In some ways, the nature of his love for us resembles an enduring marriage, or how a father or mother may love a misbegotten child. Hosea was being called to be like God when he had to love a person who would have been difficult to love. We are difficult to love when we sin; a sin is always a transgression against the Lord. "
83 " that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement. "
84 " She wished she had something like baseball that she could talk about with her daughter—a safe subject they could visit without subtext or aggression. "
85 " choose the important over the urgent. "
― Lee Min-jin , Free Food for Millionaires
86 " the stories of Koreans in Japan should be told somehow when so much of their lives had been despised, denied, and erased. "
87 " He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope. "
88 " A woman’s life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It’s better to expect it, you know. You’re becoming a woman now, so you should be told this. For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely. A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life—but no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard. No one will take care of a poor woman—just ourselves. "
89 " I’ll take care of myself and my people. You think I’d trust my life to a bunch of politicians? The people in charge don’t know anything. And the ones who do don’t care. "
90 " And this is something Solomon must understand. We can be deported. We have no motherland. Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive. "
91 " All these people - both the Japanese and the Koreans - are fucked because they keep thinking about the group. But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader. "
92 " She has loved him, and she could not bear the thought of him being gone form this life. "
93 " From the moment she'd met him, she'd felt his presence all around her. "
94 " People are awful. Drink some beer. "
95 " to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement. "
96 " It was always better to say less. "
97 " For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely. A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life-but no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard. "
98 " He never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to him that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor. "
99 " Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.) "
100 " Casey meant it when she said, 'Forgive us for our debts as we forgive our debtors,' because they were for her the hardest words to live by, and by saying them, she hoped they'd become possible. Like Ted, Casey would never discuss her ambivalent views on religion. She was honest enough to admit that her privacy cloaked a fear: the fear of being found out as a hypocrite" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.100-101.) "