Kyung-sook Shin

take things out on

still can’t kick the habit!”

puffs on her cig

to take up smoking again.

it didn’t cross your mind that your silence about Kyun

smile stretched up to my ears.

O love, so long as you can love.
—FRANZ LISZT

How far back does one’s memory of someone go?

There are moments one revisits after something happens, especially after something bad happens. Moments in which one thinks, I shouldn’t have done that.

Something had happened to Mom. That was the view of someone who wanted to think of Mom as the old mom.