Choi Yoori Quotes

I promise it'll all be worth it. Every splendid, euphoric and magical moment of it will be worth it. ~ Con Template

You'll tell me what it feels, right? When you find Paris? ~ Con Template

No one said finding Paris would be easy; I only said it would be worth it. ~ Con Template

Cause that's the thing about boomerangs, right? They come back even if they feel they shouldn't, they come back even if the world tries to stop them, they come back because they ultimately know where they belong ... and who they belong to. ~ Con Template

Nothing can be comparable to good health ~ Choi Hong Hi

This dog is quite similar to me. He doesn't care that much and sleeps all the time. ~ Choi Youngjae

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable. ~ Hee-seop Choi

At least there was coffee. Reliable, delicious, life-giving coffee. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

but some of us are born / in orbit / so learn /to commune with miles of darkness / patterns of dead gods / & quiet / o quiet like you / wouldn't believe ~ Franny Choi

Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached. ~ Susan Choi

There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry. ~ Min-sik Choi

No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead. ~ Franny Choi

We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock."
"Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering his nose.
"Pigs, too. And horses. Great for growing tomatoes.
The Cadets are wanna-be soldiers. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
"I'm going to throw up," one of the guys says.
"Don't feel too bad," I explain. "Some of our lot did while they were laying out this stuff. Actually, right there where you're standing. ~ Melina Marchetta

There's no escape for us. We are like mice trapped in a dungeon of wildcats.We are Koreans; we are cursed race and there is no hope for us as long as the Japanese are around. ~ Sook Nyul Choi

My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears at the banter of eighteen-year-olds on the street. It frankly examined their bodies. It did not know its place: that my youth governed me with such ease didn't mean I was young. It meant I was divided as if housing a stowaway soul, rife with itches and yens which demanded a stern vigilance. I didn't live thoughtlessly in my flesh anymore. My body had not, in its flesh, fundamentally changed quite so much as it now could intuit the change that would only be dodged by an untimely death, and to know both those bodies at once, the youthful, and the old, was to me the quintessence of being middle-aged. Now I saw all my selves, even those that did not yet exist, and the task was remembering which I presented to others. ~ Susan Choi

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth. ~ Susan Choi

Well, your God is silent and sleeping while the Japanese are busy torturing and killing us Koreans. We are as helpless as flies and it is getting worse as the war goes on. ~ Sook Nyul Choi

All things birth their own opposites. ~ Franny Choi

To be a hero, you had to decide it was you. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum. ~ Susan Choi

I want out of this store, out of this moment, out of my skin. I need an elastic band to snap around my wrist. I rub my eyes until I see stars. I rub them again as if I can scrape the horrible, weak-willed pipe dreams from my brain. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Let's just say when I was little and my mom was out, I'd go to bed with a ketchup bottle."

"I already love this story so much..."

"It was a foolproof plan. If the bad guys came in I could douse myself and they wouldn't kill me because I was already dead."

"Jesus, I can't tell if that's the cutest thing I've ever heard or the absolute most sad. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side.
"Is it espresso?" Anson Choi asks behind us.
"Freshly percolated," Ben answers. "You should see the gadgets they have up here."
Anson Choi aims a begging look at Griggs.
"You want to sell out over a coffee?" Griggs asks him with disgust.
"They've got muffins as well," I tell them. "Double chocolate chip. His mum made them."
Griggs gets up and holds out a hand to me. "Truce. ~ Melina Marchetta

want to live someplace that ~ Mary H.K. Choi

it's more this undeniable mood. It's this warm, familiar and exciting feeling where you miss them already when you're with them. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go. ~ Choi Minho

I am only trying to remember how it felt not to leak. ~ Franny Choi

Everything precious was also vulnerable. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Kingdom carved. At the end of the line, we made our own place. ~ Franny Choi

It means I'll think about you all the time and wish you were close even when I'm not here. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Plenty of people craved attention. It had to be the right person, someone who naturally commanded it. Sam suspected most outwardly noisy people were boring in the inside. No more than the textbook swirl of insecurities and narcissism. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency ... Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell.' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively. ~ Roy Choi

knotted up; frayed; faked own death; kept showing
up in new clothes, new names; then leaving ~ Franny Choi

My hunger, too, has both hard and soft parts. ~ Franny Choi

People scared Penny all the time. Like her mother and even Sam. It meant she loved them. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

There was no way she'd allow him to see her do 97 percent of her normal activities. She was a monster. A monster who was flat as a board with no ass. In fact, the only thing she had going on in the curves department was an enormous cystic pimple on her chin that hurt when she touched it. Yeah, no. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Loving someone was traumatizing. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age. ~ Susan Choi

I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful. ~ Kenneth Choi

Coup de foudre; perhaps it was real. One went from believing, when twenty, that it was the one kind of love that was real, to believing, once closer to forty, that it was not only fragile but false
the inferior, infantile, doomed love of twenty-year-olds. Somewhere between, the norms of one culture of love were discarded, and those of the other assumed. When did it happen, at midnight of one's thirty-first birthday? On the variable day that, while browsing a grocery-store aisle with a man, the repeating refrain of the rest of one's life for the first time resounds in one's ear? ~ Susan Choi

You've got to understand that not everybody's going to be exactly your kind of person. They're not going to be completely satisfactory or meet your myriad qualifications. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

In hindsight he was glad it wasn't the good taco spot because it would have been ruined forever. Anyplace that charged seventy-five cents for condiments could burn in hell. On principle. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

If a man has too much arm and leg hair, he is not a man, just merely an ape. ~ Young-Joon Choi

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts. ~ Min-sik Choi

They both liked pizza way more than their person. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Here, in a seed, is a cyborg: A bleeding girl, dragging a knife through the sand. An imaginary girl who dreams of becoming trash. ~ Franny Choi

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist ~ Choi Soo-young

Why are instants of reunion so empty? Perhaps because they are so anticipated, too muffled already at the moment of their coming with every previous imagining to make any mark of their own.They refer backwards, to all the length of time that has refined itself as the prologue to cataclysm, and to all the flawed imaginings themselves, in each of which this moment is strangely dilated, expansive, arrested ~ Susan Choi

Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants. ~ Kenneth Choi

Life isn't a destination. It's the continual practice of things that make you wiser and happier. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

They both likes pizza way more that their person. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

Create diverse characters because you can. Especially ones that aren't easy to write. A character that scares you is worth exploring. Yet if you breathe life into a character and it comes to you too easily - say you're writing from the viewpoint of a black man in America and you're not one? Think hard about where your inspiration is coming from. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though I've opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I am. That's because I enjoy it. I believe in it. It's everything that I am. ~ Roy Choi