Anton Hur

From time to time, her husband came home a little earlier than usual and the two of them spent a quiet evening together, but they had never had a fiery romance to begin with or had much in terms of memories to fall back on. They had spent too much of their marriage in a state of emotional detachment to really start making an effort to be affectionate now. They usually ate dinner in silence, watched some television in silence, and her husband would go to bed first in silence.

The pout of his thin lips provoked an urge to tease him with everything I had in my arsenal as well as a conflicting urge to give him everything in my heart, my world.

It is so difficult to try to say what I intend.

To those who are not kind to you, who do not respect you—don’t bother being polite to them in return. Even in demeaning situations, you can at least hold on to some of your dignity.

Even if we can’t change the situation, we need to push back a little to protect our dignity from the worst kind of people.

What gives bullies strength isn’t their position, but the helpless politeness of the
bullied.

When only numbers are sought, true value is forgotten.

First, when someone criticizes you, keep in mind that this is only an individual’s opinion—and the individual in question is not exactly King Solomon or Sigmund Freud.

These insults come from a compulsion to feel superior, to compensate for a sense of inferiority, and to validate one’s existence.

If you don’t wipe the grease spot off your own camera lens, the whole world will be smudged forever.