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When you have so little, just the smallest thing can make you happy - and

We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.

I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.

Death occupied the spaces between us.

I couldn't imagine it was possible for something so beautiful to exist in the same world as me.

In Korea we say that if a person cannot close his eyes in death, it is because he hasn't fulfilled something in this world.

Come to my grave someday, and tell me that the North and South are reunited." It

It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.

A second chance? I thought. A second chance is what criminals get. I knew I wasn't a criminal; I did what I had to do to survive and save my family.

when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.

As North Koreans, we were innocent in a way that I cannot fully explain.

But there was human intimacy and connection, something that is hard to find in the modern world I inhabit today.