Concerning My Daughter Quotes

“That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“All I can do is believe that I will make it through the long stretch of tomorrows.”
― Kim Hye-Jin , Concerning My Daughter

“In moments like this, I'm brought face to face with the ruthlessness of life. One hill after another after another. Climbing at first with hope and then gradually in resignation. But life never goes easy. A foe without mercy or magnanimity. A losing battle. A fight that ends only with defeat.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Labor without end. The thought that no one can save me from this exhausting work. Concern over what will happen when the moment comes when I cannot work anymore. In other words, what worries me isn’t death, but life. I must do whatever needs to be done to withstand this suffocating uncertainty that will be with me for as long as I am living. I learned this too late.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter: A Novel

“It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“When I wake up, I will have the energy to get through the next bit of life ahead of me. I am not thinking about what's coming far off in the future, but what I face now. I think to myself that I will only think about what needs to be done today and get it done without incident. All I can do is believe that I will make it through the long stretch of tomorrows.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“The voices of many people varying in tone and timbre settled in every corner of the house, clearing out the silence and breathing life into it. The house stretching its sleepy limbs and becoming a home.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Nevertheless, I must ask. I have to. I must be prepared to ask and ask until I tire myself out. Because my daughter is my child. In the end, I want to know, and I must know. I don't want to be the kind of parent who runs away. I don't want to avoid and hesitate, and end up losing my daughter.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo.”
― kim hye-jin, Concerning My Daughter

“爲什麼要將他人無需知道的私事這樣大剌剌的展然出來？爲什麼放任他人誤會自己？爲什麼無視高雅端莊，整潔俐落這任誰都會奉之爲圭臬的價值？”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“I am not thinking about what’s coming far off in the future, but what I face now. I think to myself that I will only think about what needs to be done today and get it done without incident. All I can do is believe that I will make it through the long stretch of tomorrows.”
― Kim Hye-jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Espinhos. Pregos.

Pode ser que eu tenha criado tudo isso dentro de mim. Talvez tenha pensado que pudesse me proteger contra os perigos e as pessoas de fora. Mas isso só me trouxe essa dor tremenda.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Talvez tenha procurado a todo custo tornar minha vida chata e sem graça, estipulando o que se pode e o que não se pode fazer na minha idade, cortando todas as possibilidades desde o início. Talvez esteja podando tudo que cresce para não perder de vista a morte que se aproxima de uma vida sem graça. Talvez esteja tentando me submeter a uma lavagem cerebral, me dizendo que não tenho coragem de recomeçar nada, de lutar para vencer o que for, e, assim, manter um cotidiano monótono porém seguro, desanimado porém tranquilo.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Em momentos assim me vejo cara a cara com a crueldade da vida. Não basta superar uma montanha, porque logo vem outra e mais outra. Por algumas a gente passa com esperança, por outras, com resignação. Mas nem depois de tantas montanhas superadas a vida se torna generosa. É impossível conseguir benevolência ou complacência desse adversário chamado Vida. É uma luta constante, da qual nunca sairemos vencedores. Uma luta que só termina quando declaramos a derrota total.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer.”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“只要把敏锐察觉到，得知的事实说出来，就会令大家 不高兴。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“我心想，說不定是女兒讀太多書了。不，說不定是我讓女兒讀了太多不必要的書，包括一學再學，但其實沒有必要學習，以及不應該學習的東西—抗拒世界的方法，和世界唱反調的方法。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“如今女兒不再提起過世的丈夫，光是爲了奮力的將每一天，將生活拖往前方，女兒就已經分身乏術，沒有回顧過去的餘裕。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“然而現在她卻表然得如毫不相干的，好像她是自己出生，自己長大成人的，一切均憑自己下判斷，做決定。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“在大家忙着尋找身體健康又有能力的老公人選時，這兩人到底是從那兒開始出錯的？”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“說不定這兩個人是學識淵博，老練世故的流氓，搞不好學校教了他們比拳頭更強悍有效的方法，才會有像我這樣既不知道自己被搶劫，被算計，只能感到莫可耐何的受害者吧。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“這兩人把世界想成什麼了？相信它是書上那些光明燦爛的事物嗎？覺得只要幾個人同心協力，就能猛然推翻嗎？”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“如過我一味拉着女兒，最後這牢牢繃緊，笈笈可危的線就會應聲斷掉，我會就此失去女兒。但那並不代表我理解了，或是同意了。只是將我手中的線放鬆，退讓了一步，使女兒能夠走得遠一些；只是拋下期待，拋下野甚，持續拋下某樣東西退開罷了。女兒當真不曉得這有多困難嗎？事佯裝不知，還是不想知道？”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“爲何我的女兒偏偏會喜歡女人呢？是故意將這種其他父母一輩子都無須思慮的問題丟給我，要我試着突破難關，用這種方式來催促，脅逼我嗎？”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“我沒有提及珍的名字，只是用這種方式說出她的故事。在狹小，令人窒息的孤獨中老去的人，將年輕歲月浪費在他人，社會與那般的鴻圖大志上頭，如今一切消耗殆盡，得獨自走入遲暮的淒涼可憐之人”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“老去的人，將年輕歲月浪費在他人，社會與那般的鴻圖大志上頭，如今一切消耗殆盡，得獨自走入遲暮的淒涼可憐之人。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“還以爲女兒會埋怨或責怪我，甚至氣憤的口出惡言，但也許她現在打定主意要保持緘默了。她一定是發現了，有事沈默會成爲更強大可怕的武器吧。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“她就置身於敵意於險惡，蔑視與暴力，憤怒於無情的中央。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“我很想知道，也許我想化身爲那個事不關己的人，拿著一本小冊子，偶爾假裝做做筆記，不抱任何期待，野心和怯懦，想問什麼就什麼，然後等待對方的回答。”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter