The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

We are separated by distance, by worlds. By memory.

blocking a wound from bleeding out. But a wound, not tended properly, will reopen; it must be healed.”

everything has a soul, from the emperor to the lowliest of humans, from the birds to the rocks in the stream.

Why must everything we love be taken from us? Why can’t we hold what we love forever in our hands, safe and warm and whole?

I don’t think love can be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given.”

Is there any way a person can die, yet still live?”

Love is what drove them apart, and love is what will bring them together—if they’re not too stubborn to forgive each other!”

My eldest brother, Sung, says trust is earned, that to give someone your trust is to give them the knife to wound you. But Joon would counter that trust is faith, that to trust someone is to believe in the goodness of people and in the world that shapes them.

to give up her own life. They could never understand.”

“Tears are fine every now and then, but it’s never a good thing to waste water.”