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61 " People sometimes say how cool it'd be to be fearless, but they don't know what they're talking about. Fear is an instinctive defense mechanism necessary for survival. Not knowing fear doesn't mean that you're brave; it means you're stupid enough to stay standing on the road when a car is charging toward you. "
― Won-pyung Sohn , Almond
62 " To me, that’s like being asked, Why do you live? Do you live for any purpose? Let’s be honest, we just live because we’re alive. "
63 " Books took me to places I could never go otherwise. They shared the confessions of people I'd never witnessed. The emotions I could never feel, and the events I hadn't experienced could all be found in those volumes. "
64 " Parents start out with grand expectations for their kids. But when things don't go as expected, they just want their kids to be ordinary, thinking it's simple. But son, being ordinary is the hardest to achieve. "
65 " <...> every story becomes boring once the ending is spoiled. "
66 " Mom said everything was for my sake, calling it love. But to me, it seemed more like we were doing this out of her own desperation not to have a child that was different. Love, according to Mom’s actions, was nothing more than nagging about every little thing, with teary eyes, about how one should act such and such in this and that situation. If that was love, I’d rather neither give nor receive any. "
67 " The Mom who shared the details of my life and hers with somebody was not the Mom I knew. It was a relief to hear that she had that somebody. "
68 " Before I had time to think, her lips brushed against my lips. They felt like a cushion. Her soft, moist lips slowly pressed into mine. And just like that, we breathed three times. Our chests moved up and down, and up and down, and up and down. Then we lowered our heads at the same time. Our lips parted as our foreheads touched. "
69 " nail on the wall must’ve pricked my leg, because it was bleeding. Gon saw and started weeping like a child. Yes, this was who he was. The kind of person who tears up at a drop of blood, who feels pain for others’ pain. "
70 " I wish I could never feel fear, pain, guilt, everything . . .” he had said in a teary voice. “That’s not something anyone can just do. Besides, you are too full of emotions. I think you’d rather make a good artist or a musician,” I’d said after some thought. "
71 " I fell silent for a while, trying to find the words to convince him. But I was too young to have much vocabulary, and I couldn’t think of anything else truer than what I had already said. "
72 " It’s not necessarily that I was unable to express feelings, but more that I was unable to identify them in the first place. "
73 " Even thought my brain was a mess, what kept my soul whole was the warm of the hands holding mine on both sides "
74 " I looked down at him, saying nothing. I felt like I’d become uselessly taller. "
75 " En realidad, nadie puede saber si una historia terminará en tragedia o comedia. Quizá sea imposible desde el principio clasificar una existencia como una u otra. La vida no hace más que fluir imparable, guardándonos toda clase de sabores. "
76 " Love, according to Mom's actions, was nothing more than nagging about every little thing, with teary eyes, about how one should act such and such in this and that situation. If that was love, I'd rather neither give nor recieve any. But of course, I didn't say that out loud. That was all thanks to one of Mom's codes of conduct—Too much honesty hurts others—which I had memorized over and over so that it was stuck in my brain. "
77 " Lastly, and I know it sounds like an excuse, but neither you nor I nor anyone can ever rally know whether a story is happy or tragic. "
78 " Laughing along is one of my hardest acts. I could force my lips to twist upward, but that's the best I could do. A kind of smile so forced, that could easily be misunderstood as a mean sneer. "
79 " Before long, as quickly as foam disolves, even those subjects were no longer talked about. It took only ten days. "
80 " It is not a race, it's just running. All we need to do is simply feel our bodies splitting the air. "