The Last Story of Mina Lee
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. Their decisions would always be scrutinized by the lives at which they were able to sacrifice themselves, their bodies, their pleasures and desires. A woman who imagined her own way out would always be ostracized for her own strength.”
“Choosing if and when and how to share the truth might be the deepest, most painful necessity of growing out into the world and into yourself.”
“What was the point of learning a language that brought you into the fold of a world that didn’t want you? Did this world want her? No. It didn’t like the sound of her voice.”
“These were hard questions, questions she wasn’t even sure she was ready to ask out loud. But she had been presented with this rare opportunity, and in a way, she had been preparing for the answers her entire life. Maybe that’s what she had been doing this entire time—hardening herself for the truth. Some questions were never meant to be answered, yet ideally, pursuing them might at least shed light on how much you valued yourself, the need you might have to tell your own story, however fragmented it might be. It was okay to yearn for the impossible every now and then as long as in the yearning you discovered something about yourself.”
“Language itself was a home, a shelter, as well as a way of navigating the larger world.”
“And the whole world told women every day, If you are alone, you are no one. A woman alone is no one at all.”
“Sometimes, agreeing to the same lie is what makes a family family, Margot.”
“She didn’t need a language that wasn’t big enough for her, didn’t want to make room for her.”
“Many of them—with their blue eyes and tall noses—appeared intrinsically attractive because even white people who weren’t supermodels were at least white.”
“How could they have known that one day their country would be split in two, severing them from their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, without any palpable end in sight?”
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Book Keywords:
choices, women, trapped, strength
