Quotes About Identity

We are not to be surprised by the fiery trials (1 Pet. 4:12), but to rejoice in them, since such ordeals enable us to identify with Christ's sufferings (4:13) and prove the reality of our faith (1:7).

Finally, in Bosnia I forgot my own name. That's an excellent basis for starting this course, I thought. Just as the thought of you is an excellent basis for a start. So as not to forget your name as well, I had to keep writing it down on water. On the Sava River. I don't know if you know that forests migrate?

It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing hymns in Russian, are cleverest in Turkish and speak their mother tongue --Serbian-- only when they intend to kill.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Without freedom, no one really has a name.

Bagel: a doughnut dipped in cement, a Jewish brass-knuckle.

I like the West. That's where men are men and women are women, and it's hard to beat a combination like that.

Às vezes, a leitura de um livro desvela uma pessoa.

The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.

Aren't liars just storytellers who hate themselves?

By fusing sexual desire with masculinity andfemininity, sexual desire becomes gendered and gender becomes sexualized.

There was more to being something than just blood.

because she would not believe that she was no different than her parents, that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean. She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

In Seoul, people like me get called Japanese bastards, and in Japan, I'm just another dirty Korean no matter how much money I make or how nice I am. So what the fuck?

She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

A snake that sheds its skin is still a snake.

He walked until he couldn't hear her scream his name anymore. He walked rigidly and calmly, not believing that a person you loved - yes he has loved her - could end up being someone you never knew.

But she could not imagine clinging to Japan, which was like a beloved stepmother who refused to love you,

the stories of Koreans in Japan should be told somehow when so much of their lives had been despised, denied, and erased.

And this is something Solomon must understand. We can be deported. We have no motherland. Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

The wife you choose will be your personal and social mirror.

Words never mattered' he said, 'seasons mattered. Notice how people behave when they're desperate - that's who they are,' he warned.

Etsuko grew silent, utterly transfixed by the realization that how she saw herself was actually how her children saw her, too. They thought she was a monster.

For people like us, home doesn't exist.