Reply 1994 (Answer Me 1994) Quotes and Narration

Compilation of Quotes and Narration from tvN drama Reply 1994 (Answer Me 1994)

Episode 1

"People learn to adjust as they live their life." -Sung Dong Il-

"Age twenty in Seoul, when everything—city and people—was frightening. On that unfamiliar land, the place where we wouldn't be outsiders was... The only place that made us feel safe was this place, my home." -Na Jung-


Episode 2

“When a familiar habit, familiar daily life, or familiar person becomes unfamiliar all of a sudden, it doesn't have to be a chaotic event. It could merely be a secret signal that a new life or a new relationship is beginning.” - Na Jung -


Episode 3

"We are the "X" generation. Although now we are surrounded by a population connected to smartphones and the internet, leaving us extinct, we who were in our twenties, were in the history of the race, a state-of-the-art species. Finding love through the PC, I think I love you a lot. Sending our hearts through the pager, and hearing break up notices via voice messages, we were the youngest race in history.

"There are things that are right, and some that are wrong. Anyway, not everything is 'right'" -Chilbongi-

" Sometimes reality is crueler than lies" -Na Jung-


Episode 5

"In this world, there are words too difficult to say. There are words that you can’t bear to say to the ones you love. When you have to explain the pain you’ve caused another… and when you have to convey the truth to those who aren’t yet prepared for it."-Trash Oppa-

"When you have to convey the truth to a loved one who will have a hard time accepting it, when you have to deliver words you’d rather die than say, you just have to think of one thing… More than any long speech, more than eloquent words, it’s the look in your eye that says that you love them—that one thing is plenty." -Trash Oppa-


Episode 6

"Every morning when I open my eyes, I’m amazed. You and I, we have lasted till now, living under one roof, lying under one blanket, living like this." -Sung Dong Il-

"All relationships grow more familiar and eventually get taken for granted. The strongest power of a gift is its ability to take that familiar and expected relationship and infuse it with excitement and gratitude once again. Through picking out a gift and writing the card card and considering that person, that person becomes new again. And those feelings are certain to be conveyed." -Na Jung-

"But if that familiar and expected relationship breaks down, now gifts or belated efforts become meaningless. Like a neglected orchid left to wither in the corner of a balcony, to whom belated water or care is pointless. The gift must be given and feelings conveyed before you wither, before you grow indifferent to one another." -Na Jung-

"There’s no fun in receiving a gift that you know about beforehand. The surprise is the lifeblood of giving gifts. The gift that flies in with uncanny timing is therefore even more moving. Even without a sender’s name or address, we knew who sent that gift." -Na Jung-

“Present. In English, it has two meanings: a gift, and also the current moment. It may be that the most precious gift to us is the present, the time in front of us now. True, we may always be bickering with each other, but we leaned on each other and were happy together. 1994 was like a gift to us. And exactly eight years later, an unbelievable gift came to Korea—of all days, on that day." -Na Jung-


Episode 7

"At a time in my life when I had nothing left if you took baseball away from me, I found a person who made me more excited, more fired up than baseball. The hottest summer in history was beginning, and my age twenty was following suit just like the season. It was the summer of 1994." -Chilbongie-

"Someone once sang that summer is the season of youth, and the season of love. In the summer of 1994, the season was passing, but my—and our—summer was just beginning." -Chilbongie-


Episode 8

“Sometimes I imagine what would have happened if I hadn’t answered the phone that day, and what would have happened with us if I hadn’t gone to the terminal. Living is all about the choices you make moment by moment. Even if it’s just a log bridge, you must make a choice: Do you go forward? Do you turn around, or do you stop? Where I am now is the result of countless choices made in the past. That day I answered the phone and went to the terminal, and those small choices gathered to make up the present day.” -Samchunpo-

“Whichever path you choose, there are always lingering thoughts of the road not taken. That’s why there are no choices without regrets, and no one right answer to life. All you can do is believe that the road you have chosen is the right answer, and turn it into the right answer. The right answer to life is to believe that you don’t regret your past choices and live on.” -Samchunpo-

“Believing in my past choices without regret and loving them—that is the right answer, and that’s how to grow old with style.” -Samchunpo-


Episode 9

"Sincerity can so often be hidden away. It’s so shy and delicate that the closer you draw near, the more you bully it, it hides deeper down. There’s just one way: make eye contact and open your ears until sincerity raises its own head. If you hold your words and thoughts and wait, sincerity will suddenly pop up and show itself. No advice or well-intentioned warning can serve as real comfort. True comfort is just the moment when sincerity is shared." -Binggeure-

"Thankfully I have someone in my life who could read my sincerity when I didn’t even know it. A hyung who comforts me just by existing.” -Binggeure-

"When I get ready to really say it, my head fills with tens of thousands of thoughts, and my mouth shuts closed. When that happens, I just need to take a deep breath and catch those floating thoughts one by one. In doing that, I discovered that what I really want to say boils down to just two or three simple words." -Chilbongie-


Episode 10

“The last time always happens without the realization that it’s the last time. Perhaps the reason that last times always hurt our hearts is out of sadness for not realizing the moment as it passes by. In the fall of 1994, Dad’s Seoul Twins brought in their last win. And the age of twenty, which we’d felt would last forever, was approaching its last season without us realizing it.

Our hearts were racing with new challenges, our hearts were blazing, and we had no fear. That thrill, fire, and fearlessness that only being twenty can bring—without realizing how precious they are, we lived the last season of being twenty.” -Na Jung-

"Saying goodbye is sad and strange. Parting ways is never something you get used to. And if it’s a goodbye that you don’t know will be the last, even if it’s just one day’s connection, it’s still bound to leave you reeling. In 1994, on the last day before saying goodbye to being twenty, we said a goodbye that might become the last. And we spent a fateful night that might become the last.”" -Na Jung-

“First love, and age twenty. Could there be anything as delicate and heart-thumping as those things? On December 31, 1994, our twentieth year came to an end, and our first loves awaited a new start.” -Na Jung-

“Like our first kisses that we couldn’t have foreseen, that’s how our loves that couldn’t be predicted, our twenty-first year, and 1995 began.” -Na Jung-


Cr: dramabeans & The Class of 1994 Team - Viki, compiled by beatuscorner