Author: Sonya Chung

Cites

• Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
  • IN: Long for This World (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
    FROM: I am Too Alone in the World, (1905), Poem, Bohemia/Austria
• Sun-won Hwang (1)
  • IN: The Loved Ones (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For a moment she seemed poised to resist, but then she followed without a word. They arrived, breathless, at the oak grove on the ridge behind the village. The brilliant moonlight was no longer welcome. They searched for a place that was shadier still.
    FROM: Lost Souls, (1958), Book, South Korea
• Sewell Chan (1)
  • IN: The Loved Ones (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There has also been some inconsistency regarding what the sankofa, thought to stand for a West African proverb, means. The 2006 [African Burial Ground project] reports render the proverb as, "It is not a taboo to return and fetch it when you forget," while the new interpretive display offers the easier-to-grasp phrase, "Look to the past to understand the present."
    FROM: "Coffin's Emblem Defies Certainty", The New York Times, (2010), Article, US