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81 " The peak of summer. Summer. Had that day really existed? When everything was green and lush and full? Everything we’d experienced together, was it truly real? "
― Won-pyung Sohn , Almond
82 " I’ve decided to confront it. Confront whatever life throws at me, as I always have. And however much I can feel, nothing more, nothing less. "
83 " Granny, why do people call me weird?”“Maybe it’s because you’re special. People just can’t stand it when something is different. "
84 " She always called me a monster. To her, that wasn’t a bad thing. "
85 " 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. "
86 " Too much honesty hurts others — which I had memorized over and over so that it was stuck in my brain. "
87 " Changing expressions in a split second was his thing. "
88 " 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. "
89 " Luck plays a huge part in all the unfairness of the world. Even more than you'd expect. "
90 " Too much honesty hurts others. "
91 " 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. "
92 " 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. "
93 " Anything will lose its meaning if you repeat it often enough. "
94 " Everyone thinks "ordinary" is easy and all, but how many of them would actually fit into the so-called smooth road the word implied? "
95 " ... 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. "
96 " 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. "
97 " It's good to help others if there's no harm. "
98 " There is no such person who can't be saved. There are only people who give up on trying to save others. "
99 " 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. "
100 " ...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. "