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"Your mind keeps going back to May of that year. That's not strange at all. If you lose your favourite umbrella, you think of it whenever it rains. It feels even worse, if the season you lost your loved one comes back every year. It's only natural that our minds return to that day as if it were yesterday." - Hwang Jung Tae
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"Lord.. Whatever hardship may befall us, we will not let go of these hands we finally get to hold. I pray we can overcome the hardship. More than anything, I pray you give me worse pains instead of Myeong Hee. I pray sincerely in the Lord's name." - Hwang Hee Tae
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"Myeong Soo said this to me one day. That the runner who runs way in the front does nothing but block the wind for the others. He said it was your loss if you stood in the front from the beginning. Perharps, I lived my life always in the front, blocking the wind with my whole body. I was that runner who was in the front. I was afraid you would be hit by the wind like me. What if your wings were hurt from the hardships of this world? I hoped you wouldn't stand in the front like me and just leave it behind with me. And from now on, let your wings carry you freely wherever you want to go." - Kim Hyun Chul
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"Lord, if something unexpected happens and we have to let go of each other's hands, please don't let the sorrow overwhelm the lives of those left behind. Even if the tears we shed fill up to our chins, please don't let us drown and give us the power and courage to swim safely throughout this life." - Kim Myeong Hee
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"As always, May has come. This year is the 41st May since I lost you, Myeong Hee. All this time, my life felt like swimming during a rising tide. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't move forward, and I even tried to let myself drown. But when I woke up, that tide had pushed me back to that May inside my heart. It felt so cruel that I lived in resentment. For a very long time, I lived in regret and thought about what could've been. If I hadn't gone to Gwangju in May of that year, if I hadn't met you in Gwangju, if I hadn't let go of your hand in those woods, would you still be alive? But, on this 41st May when you've finally returned, I now realize that I was the one who chose todo all of that. In May of that year, I chose to go to Gwangju, and chose to love you with all my heart. I prayed every day that worse pains in life would come to me instead of you. If I had been the one to die in the crossroads of life and death, and you had lived, you would've experienced the tides that I had experienced all this time. The life of the one who was left behind. Hence, I've finally realized that what I experienced all this time was the Lord's way of answering my prayer. Those lonely and painful 41 years, were merely, my love for you. The remaining years of my life will be an answer to your prayer. No matter how many times the rising tide pushes me back to that May, I have you here now. Until we meet again, I will swim against the tide with all my might." - Hwang Hee Tae
