Flashlight Susan Choi Quotes

Love is, perhaps, the sensation of expertise that erupts out of nowhere, and as time goes on accumulates enough soil at its feet to be standing on something.

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity Edward W. Wagner, The Korean Minority in Japan, 1904–1950 Sakie Yokota, North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter Kim Yong, Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Meek Assertion of Collective Dismay?—

The fact – that the flashlight, in falling, landed almost noiselessly in sand – rippled over her like the pale cloud of light on the ceiling. It was not a memory, as Louisa understood memory: a fragmented, juddering filmstrip of image and sound. This wasn't something but nothing, an absence where a presence was expected. There had been no clattering onto the rocks. There had been no splash in the water. The flashlight had landed almost noiselessly in sand.