She wasn’t a real ghost, of c...

She wasn’t a real ghost, of course. We weren’t sure she was a virgin either. Yet we called her so because of her clothes: the light taupe hanbok made of thick, coarse hemp cloth, a dress worn only by funeral-mourners, or by virgin ghosts in folktales, the bewitching, ethereal beauties who met an untimely demise, and were thus forever tortured by the angst of having never possessed a husband. - P17

I ate earth when I was young. It was neither poverty nor curiosity: it was just a pure urge that made me eat earth, the same one that makes you crave water when you’re thirsty. - P33