Adam JohnsonOrphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.371Love
Adam JohnsonWhere we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to sta… ▶372PoliticsTruth
Adam Johnson[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. ✨ Adam Johnson (2012). The Orphan Master's Son, p.136, Rando… ▶376Death
Adam JohnsonUse your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past. ✨ Adam Johnson (2012). The Orphan Master's Son, p.109, Random House323HopeTime
Adam JohnsonBut people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done. ✨ Adam Johnson (2012). The Orphan Master's Son, p.68, Random House357Humanity
Adam JohnsonToday, tomorrow, she said. A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.241Sadness
Adam JohnsonThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.288Humor
Adam JohnsonThe light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *int… ▶233Life
Adam Johnson. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .228Humor
Adam JohnsonLike putting a name to my problems would solve anything239Life
Adam JohnsonWriting is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than stari… ▶164Truth
Adam JohnsonA name isn't a person. Ga said. Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where … ▶2010LifeLove
Adam JohnsonIn my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range148HumanityLife
