Cable Car Conversation
SS: I want to get married.
JH: Why?
SS: You really have to ask me that?
JH: Sure. Do I know you well? How else am I supposed to know why you want to get married?
SS: You’re riding a boat across the Pacific. It’s scary crossing it alone. And it’s much faster when two people row the boat.
Sam-Soon Getting Drunk
JH: Say it. So tell me about your dream guy. I’ll find someone for you.
SS: What? My dream guy? You think you can fool me again? But if you’re that curious, I can tell you. My dream guy…well…he should have a stable job and be able to bring me his pay-check every month.
JH: That’s too broad. Be a bit more specific.
SS: Ummm…a good kisser.
JH: You are an old seductive fox. What else?
SS: Smart aleck…stop laughing. And… a guy I can proudly introduce to my mother and sister as my boyfriend; someone that will proudly introduce me to his friends and parents as his girlfriend. That doesn’t sound that difficult. If it’s like this, I’ll be satisfied.
JH: It’s very easy.
SS: You are just a child. Do you know how difficult that is? That’s really, really, really difficult. Do you know why? Well because he never did, he never revealed my existence and never showed me to anyone.
JH: It’s easier to cheat on you that way.
EPISODE 3 - PLEASE TEACH ME HOW TO WRITE A LOVE CONTRACT
Sam-Soon (Monologue on bus)
You’re not mature. I never thought that all the promises he made to me would be empty lies. Would it be easier for me now if he hadn’t made so many promises? Even though I know how baseless his talk is, I hate myself for still wanting to believe his words. I hate myself for still wavering at his meaningless glances and gestures; for dwelling upon it like this. It seems that when you lose love, you lose all confidence in yourself.
Sam-Soon telling Na-sajang how much she 'loves' Jin-Hun
There’s a female novelist, she writes all throughout the night and puts her writing on her husband’s desk at the break of dawn. When her husband wakes up, he reads it before leaving for work. In short, he’s the first person to read her work every morning. I want Jin-Hun to be the first person to taste my cake. I want to bake the most delicious cake in the world and I want Jin-Hun to be the first person to taste it. That’s how much I love him.
Jin-Hun telling his mother why he 'likes' Sam-Soon
She’s much better than all the other women you introduced me to. She invests in her dreams with the money she earns. She’s not like the brainless girls who buy designer clothes with their daddies’ credit cards. And she knows where she stands. She knows exactly what she has to do and what she will do in the future. She has sound ideals and values and is very smart.
EPISODE 4 - OVER THE RAINBOW
100th Day declaration to Sam-soon
In this wide and big space, on a star called earth, you and I met. It has been a hundred days since you came to me. Thank you for coming to save me.
Jin-Hun on his girlfriend
She’s not pretty. To be frank she’s really not that pretty. She’s just decent looking. She’s 30 and a bit chubby. But being chubby isn’t that bad. There’s a soft feeling like marshmellow when you hug her. She’s the third daughter of a rice cake baker. Her father passed away and her mother makes small loans in the market. She has a professional job and she wants to get married soon. And she is quick at noticing things and knows her place well. I really like that about her. Here she comes. Let me introduce my girlfriend. This is Kim Sam-Soon. She is going to become one of our country’s greatest patissier.
Conversation in the train
JH: What kind of man is Min Hyun-Woo?
SS: Why are you asking?
JH: If things don’t go well with Chae-Ree, she’ll start getting on my case again.
SS: So Hyun-Woo should be a good guy for your benefit? I don’t know.
JH: You don’t know? You dated him for 3 years.
SS: Were you sure you knew your girlfriend? Why? Did I violate the fourth clause again? People see things the way they want to. They interpret things the way they want to. That’s why we can never really know the kind of person they really are.
JH: The rosy picture seems to have lasted longer for you. It normally wears off after 2 years.
SS: It wears off?
Conversation at the platform
SS: So you are taking that bastard’s side?
JH: I don’t understand you more than I understand him.
SS: Me? Why?
JH: You experienced for yourself how funny and light love is and still, you easily fool yourself into believing that love exists and you depend on it.
SS: Who is taking what easily? I have never taken love easily. When I start, I contemplate when it should start and when it ends, I do the same. I’m serious whenever I start love and it’s the same for me when it ends too. Whether my body overflows with hormones or whether they dry up, I’m always honest with my feelings and sincere with the other person. I’m sincere.
Sam-Soon (Monologue)
The body asked the heart one day, “The doctor makes me better when I’m not feeling well but who treats you when you’re ill?” And so the heart answered, “I have to heal by myself. Is it because of that when someone is hurt, they have their own special way of healing it? People drink, sing, get angry, cry, talk to friends, going on trips with friends, run marathons or the worst way, just ignoring it.” My way of making myself feel better is to bake cookies and cakes at the break of dawn like right now. When my father suddenly passed away, when my passionate love died out, when I was insulted I come to the kitchen and baked a cake and I was healed by the smell of the baking cake. There can’t be a sweeter way of making your self feel better than this.
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