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61 " The words didn’t speak to me at all, but it didn’t matter. It was enough that my eyes moved along the words. I smelled the books, my eyes slowly tracing the shape and strokes of each letter. "
― Won-pyung Sohn , Almond
62 " Luck plays a huge part in all the unfairness of the world. Even more than you'd expect. "
63 " Too much honesty hurts others. "
64 " At last, I became human. And at that very moment, the world was drifting far away from me.In fact, this is the end of my story. "
65 " Writing would mean she'd have to sell her own life, and she didn't have the confidence to do that. Basically, she didn't have the guts to be a writer. "
66 " Anything will lose its meaning if you repeat it often enough. "
67 " Everyone thinks "ordinary" is easy and all, but how many of them would actually fit into the so-called smooth road the word implied? "
68 " But basically, all he plans is to pour concrete over my life and construct a new building of his own design. But I'm not that kind of a person... "
― Won-pyung Sohn
69 " ... remember that the brain grows. The more you use it, the better it becomes. If you use it for bad, you'll grow a bad brain, but if you use it for good, you'll have a good brain. "
70 " Hunches aren't usually just randomly felt. The brain subconsciously sorts your daily experiences into conditions or results and keeps a growing record of them. And when faced with a similar situation, you unconsciously guess the outcome based on that data. So a hunch is actually a causal link. "
71 " It's good to help others if there's no harm. "
72 " There is no such person who can't be saved. There are only people who give up on trying to save others. "
73 " How does friendship work, usually?""It means to talk face-to-face, like you and me now. To eat together and share your thoughts. To spend time together with no strings attached. That's what it means to be friends. "
74 " ...a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then can they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle. "
75 " Humans are designed to move on and keep on living, after all. "
76 " That's what practice can offer - miracles and also limitations. "
77 " People just can't stand it when something is different. "
78 " Does growing mean changing?""Probably. For better or for worse," he replied. "
79 " Human beings are a product of their education, after all. You can do it. "
80 " It seemed to mean that there was more than one answer to everything. Maybe I didn't need to stick to hard-and-fast rules of dialogue or behavior. Since everyone was different, my "odd reactions" could be normal to some people. "