"Human Acts" Quotes
"Human Acts" by Han Kang is a novel that explores the aftermath of a violent uprising in South Korea through interconnected stories of the people affected.
fiction | 218 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
When they killed this many people, they'd be sure to lose the support of the entire world.
The most important thing is to survive and get out.
It is not difficult to endure in the face of death, but to live in the face of death is another matter.
The darkness of the grave, the darkness of the bottomless pit.
The violence was over, and the aftermath was a void, the silence of bloodstains.
I wasn't going to accept that things would end like that.
The only thing that mattered was survival.
The act of killing was no more than a single bead of sweat rolling down the nape of your neck.
The dead must be left to their rest.
The ghost of the boy who could not be buried.
