Quotes from Nora Okja Keller

My mother was like a cat who could never catch the tail of happiness because she never stopped chasing it.

The baby I could keep came when I was already dead. I was twelve when I was murdered, fourteen when I looked into the Yalu River and, finding no face looking back at me, knew that I was dead. I wanted to let the Yalu's currents carry my body to where it might find my spirit again, but the Japanese soldiers hurried me across the bridge before I could jump.

Who was there to write our names, to even know our names and to remember us?