"Pachinko" Quotes
"Pachinko" follows the lives of a Korean family in 20th century Japan, as they navigate love, loss, and the challenges of identity and survival.
historical fiction | 496 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.
A man’s lot is to forget, but a woman’s lot is to remember.
There was a great deal of pain in life and he didn't want to be the cause of any more for her.
The women in Japan were so much stronger than the men.
There are times when the only way to heal our wounds is to make peace with the demons who created them.
A person could only love with the urgency and the blind faith of a child.
He thought that death, like birth, was a secret of the body.
It was a terrible thing to be a woman.
She was a woman of suffering.
It was hard to love a woman who kept secrets.
