But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what
they've done.
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
"Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
In communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range.
The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.