The farmer shifts his cudgel ...

The farmer shifts his cudgel to his opposite hand, spits emphatically on the ground, and takes John’s fingers, giving them a painfully strong squeeze. John hears himself give a high, almost girlish cry. - P87

A pain enters the back of his head and crouches there, snarling, like a cornered rat. - P89

She gives him an odd, wide-ey...

She gives him an odd, wide-eyed, teeth-gritted smile. - P78

What is immediately clear to him is that his life has taken a new turn. - P79

Part of him wants to turn and run. The other part wants to burst into laughter: the idea of a falcon, of Agnes, in his mother’s parlour, surrounded by the curlicued and painted wall hangings of which she is so proud. - P80

He feels his face curling into a smile. A child. Made by him and Agnes, among the apples in the storehouse. How can they not be married now? Nothing can be done to stop it, in such circumstances. It will be, just as she said it would. They will be married. - P81

This child, in Agnes’s belly, will change everything for him, will free him from the life he hates, from the father he cannot live with, from the house he can no longer bear. He and Agnes will take flight: to another house, another town, another life. - P82

[오늘의 한문장] 인생여전

명휴라는 말이 있습니다. 비가 오거나 태풍이 불어서 작업을 중단하고 하루 휴일을 명령한다고 해서 명휴라고합니다. 저는 이 말을 매우 좋아합니다. 그 휴일들은 대개 인위적인 사유가 아니라 하늘의 뜻에 따라 생겨난 것이니, 어떤 신성함이 느껴지기도 합니다.
삶에 지친 많은 이들에게 오늘 하루 명휴가 있었으면 합니다. - P7

[오늘의 한문장] 은 투자 사용설명서

경제적 독립을 위해서는 다음 세 가지 원칙을 반드시 지켜야 합니다.
• 부채부터 해결하라: 부채가 있다면 최대한 빨리 상환하여 금리의 노예에서 벗어나야 합니다.
• 여유 자금으로 투자하라: 조급함은 투자를 망칩니다. 반드시 여윳돈으로 편안하게 시작하십시오.
• 꾸준히 모아라: 천천히, 그러나 쉬지 않고 무게를 늘려가는 것이 가족의 경제적 독립을 위한 가장 확실한 발걸음입니다.

- <은 투자 사용설명서>, 황석현 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/d337029a811549c8 - P28

Her face – that haughty, high...

Her face – that haughty, high-cheekboned pale face of hers of which she is so proud – is contorted by pain, by thwarted anger. There are tears streaking down her cheeks, pooling in her eye sockets. - P75

Agnes shoulders her pack and, without saying goodbye, exits the farmyard, taking the path around the side of the house, and is gone. - P78