Cece, who was the quietest of...

Cece, who was the quietest of the three—as Jimmy was the politest and Bud the mouthiest—was the one who turned everything around. "Your fly’s undone," he said. Then they all whooped and ran away. - P29

THEIR elation did not vanish right away. But it was not something that could be shared or spoken about: they had to pull apart. - P29

"The word was not in his vocabulary," said Mrs. Willens. - P30

By that time nobody thought of what it referred to. - P30

The forsythia shook, not with...

The forsythia shook, not with the wind, and out came a stooped brown figure. - P22

What they had been gawking at was not the forsythia but the whole scene—the house looking just as usual, the sign by the office door, the curtains letting light in. Nothing hollow or ominous, nothing that said that Mr. Willens was not inside and that his car was not in the garage behind his office but in Jutland Pond. And Mrs. Willens out working in her yard, where anybody would expect her to be—everybody in town said so—the minute the snow was melted. - P23

Her obligingness turned from meek to pert. - P26

그러니까 저 나무들이었습니다. 아니, 바로 저 나무들...

그러니까 저 나무들이었습니다. 아니, 바로 저 나무들은 아니었지만 이른 봄의 저 연둣빛이었습니다. 아이를 낳고 아팠던 여자가 산월이 돌아오면 다시 그 자리가 아픈 것처럼, 저 나무들이 다시 두려워 시선을 뗄 수 없었습니다. 바라보는 것 말고 할 수 있는 일이 없었습니다.

-알라딘 eBook <노랑무늬 영원> (한강 지음) 중에서 - P163

당신과 함께 걸을 때면 나는 늘 조마조마했습니다. 당신이 못이나 압정을 밟을까 봐. 풀에 베일까 봐. 골목에서 아이들이 차는 공에 맞아 멍이 들까 봐. 당신의 피는 좀처럼 응고되지 않아서 코피만 흘려도 수혈을 받아야 한다고 했지요. 마치 땅이 다칠 것을 염려하는 듯 부드럽다고 생각했던 당신의 걸음걸이가, 어렸을 때부터 모든 것을 조심하며 살아왔기 때문에 생긴 습관들 중 하나라는 것을 그때쯤 나는 알고 있었습니다.

-알라딘 eBook <노랑무늬 영원> (한강 지음) 중에서 - P164

[오늘의 한문장] 돈의 속성

돈의 다섯 가지 속성으로, ‘돈은 인격체다, 규칙적인 수입의 힘, 돈의 각기 다른 성품, 돈의 중력성, 남의 돈에 대한 태도’를 말한다. 부자가 되기 위해 필요한 네 가지 능력으로는 ‘돈을 버는 능력, 모으는 능력, 유지하는 능력, 쓰는 능력’을 다룬다. - <돈의 속성(개정증보판)>, 김승호 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/5ba62f6f03774060 - P7

˝Smart bugger, aren’t you? We...

"Smart bugger, aren’t you? Well, all I got to say to you is better watch out." - P16

But the way he behaved didn’t always depend on how drunk he was. - P16

BUD SALTER had two older sisters who never did anything useful unless his mother made them. - P17

"Stop swearing. Stop tattle-telling. Grow up." - P19

And, unlike Cece Ferns’s father, he didn’t change his tune when he came into his own house. - P19

This was a family who accepted burdens of one kind or another with even less fuss than they accepted the weather. In fact, nobody in that house would have spoken of Jimmy’s father’s condition or Aunt Mary’s eyesight as burdens or problems, any more than they would of Fred’s shyness. Drawbacks and adversity were not to be noticed, not to be distinguished from their opposites. - P20

But nobody complained. Everybody praised. Complaints were as rare as lightning balls in that house. - P20

Did this explain why Jimmy kept his mouth shut that Saturday at dinnertime? They all kept their mouths shut, all three of them. - P21

It was just that their houses seemed too full. Too much was going on already. This was true in Cece’s house just as much as in the others, because even in his father’s absence there was the threat and memory all the time of his haywire presence. - P21