Every Lovely Word Born for You - Paperback

by JiSang Jeong (Translator), Young-Wook Jeong (Author)

A guided copybook by Jeong Young-Wook
- a Korean essayist whose singular sensibility keeps shaping the sentences of our time.

This copybook gathers some of the most beloved passages from Jeong Young-Wook's work, selected and refined for writing out by hand. As you copy sentences that help you trust, affirm, and stand gently with yourself, the words slowly become your own. Arranged around emotion, relationship, encouragement, and values, it offers the heart a quiet steadiness.

This book is for readers who want to:

- copy words of self-affirmation
- receive quiet comfort and encouragement
- enjoy the simple pleasure of writing by hand
- complete a book with the author, page by page
- carry life's brighter parts into each day
- write a letter to someone precious

If I may choose, I hope lovely words become our other halves. I hope we meet those words as if by fate, are fiercely entwined with them, and stay with them for life. All lovely words seem to have been born for you.
- from the Preface

With the same heart that once liked someone so intensely, have I ever liked myself that intensely? To acknowledge and cherish myself is the most precious choice in the world, and an irreplaceable act of tenderness.
- from "Have I Ever Been My Own Beloved?"

I cannot measure all of your dreams, your nights, your sleep, your sleeplessness. But this much I know: there is light. To us who have stayed awake through the long night, to us who have suffered through nightmares, still there is light, and therefore, there is morning.
- from "Still There Is Light, and Therefore Morning"

Even as the days pile up and life grows heavier, even as we stagger before the next hardship the moment we have solved the last, we must remember: we were once the most precious gift in someone's world, someone's reason to keep going, someone who could become another's warm embrace.
- from "You Are Surely a Precious Being"