{"text":"I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all their intensity, I might have lost my mind. If I had allowed myself to cry, I might never have been able to stop. So I survived, but I never felt joy, never felt safe.","author":"Yeonmi Park","tags":["activist","biography","inspirational","memoir","suffering","survival","survivor","woman"],"id":28831,"author_id":"Yeonmi+Park"}