Updated: September 10, 2023
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Korean drama, A Time Called You (2023):
Episode 1
“I can’t bear to be apart from you for a single week, let alone a year.” – Koo Yeon Jun
- “How can you be okay with living so far apart?” – Koo Yeon Jun
- “For me, every single moment that I spend with you is important! Being together is what’s important!” – Koo Yeon Jun
“What if we thought it’d be for a moment but we end up parting ways forever?” – Koo Yeon Jun
“Whoever ends up living with me must be one lucky girl.” – Koo Yeon Jun
Episode 2
- “I still can’t accept that you’re gone.” – Han Jun Hee
- “If you were going to leave me like this, you shouldn’t have come into my life.” – Han Jun Hee
“Do you know what my wish was when I blew out the candle? I wished that I could become the kind of girl you like. So that someday you would like me back.” – Kwon Min Ju
- “I’m never going to like you in that way.” – Nam Si Heon
- “Everyone else seems to be getting ready to let him go. But I don’t understand why I can’t do that.” – Han Jun Hee
“Even if it’s just once, please come to me.” – Han Jun Hee
Episode 3
“How is it that I can’t take my eyes off Nam Si-heon, even though doing so makes me feel small every time? Even though I feel more and more miserable the more I like him?” – Kwon Min Ju
“When I read through my journal or hear about the things I’ve said, done, and thought about, that was clearly me, but it just doesn’t feel like that was me.” – Han Jun Hee
“No rejections for me.” – Han Jun Hee
“You wake up after a long dream, but the dream seems like reality, and the me now is the one that isn’t real.” – Han Jun Hee
- “After you were gone, I lived on without being able to erase a single trace of you.” – Han Jun Hee
- “I knew in my head that you had died but my heart couldn’t accept it.” – Han Jun Hee
“She’s changed. She’s changed completely.” – Nam Si Heon
- “Let me tell you officially. I like you. I’ve had my eye on you for a long time.” – Jung In Gyu
- “I wanted to tell you back that I also understand what it feels like to be left out and alone.” – Jung In Gyu
Episode 4
- “Ever since you left, people keep walking on eggshells around me and keep asking me if I’m okay. But I’m actually doing really well.” – Han Jun Hee
- “I’ve done well to hold back so far but it’s almost in vain.” – Koo Yeon Jun
“How can something I wrote in my dreams now be right in front of me? What? Did I really go back to 1998?” – Han Jun Hee
- “I don’t need to know about the future. Because no matter what happens, I’ll be by your side.” – Koo Yeon Jun
- “When you came to see me yesterday, when I saw you crying, I felt weird. It kind of felt like a part of my heart was aching too.” – Nam Si Heon
“When I see you cry, it makes me want to cry too. No matter what I’m doing, I keep thinking of how you cried. And it drives me crazy.” – Nam Si Heon
“You don’t have to tell me. Even if you don’t tell me I’ll recognize you. Whenever and however we meet I’ll know the moment I see you. Just like I did in this life.” – Koo Yeon Jun
Episode 5
- “What does a king say during a farewell? Biking.” – Han Jun Hee
- “What does an almond become when it dies? Diamond.” – Han Jun Hee
“Why do I keep thinking about her? It’s driving me crazy.” – Nam Si Heon
“Do you still get butterflies when you see me because I remind you of him?” – Nam Si Heon
Episode 6
- “I’m waiting for the one destined for me.” – Nam Si Heon
- “I’ll only be with one person for my entire life. And I’m certain it’s not you.” – Nam Si Heon
“Stop thinking about her. You shouldn’t think about her.” – Nam Si Heon
- “I’m sorry for everything. For not telling In-gyu, for making you my accomplice, and for liking you too!” – Nam Si Heon
- “That was not what I wanted to say. What I wanted to tell you is I like you. I like you a lot.” – Nam Si Heon
- “No matter how hard I try, my feelings won’t go away.” – Nam Si Heon
“I won’t regret it. You were already more than just a friend to me.” – Nam Si Heon
Episode 7
“You may have been different from others in the past, but I liked you that way.” – Jung In Gyu
“You are you.” – Jung In Gyu
“Are you Nam Si-heon or Koo Yeon-jun?” – Han Jun Hee
Episode 8
“Even if they’re not by our side, they are with us forever?” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
“My feelings for you have nothing to do with how long we’ve known each other.” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
“What if she was sending a signal because she was really suffering, and you saw it but still missed it and ended up losing your friend forever? Just go listen and support her.” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
“When something bad happens to the ones we love, the rest of us end up blaming ourselves.” – Han Jun Hee
“My wish already came true. You’re here with me now.” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
Episode 9
“If you never date a man, I can never date a woman either. You’re the only woman I’d date.” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
“It could be the moment a certain someone smiled at me for the first time. Or it could be the moment that person turned around to wave at me to hurry.” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
“If you accept my feelings, I will never leave your side.” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
“Just stay by my side.” – Han Jun Hee
- “Do you know what day it is today?” – Han Jun Hee
- “It’s not a public holiday. Your birthday has already passed too. I don’t know. What day is it?” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
- “The day we started dating.” – Han Jun Hee
“I realized that no matter what I do, whatever is meant to happen will happen in the end. That the outcome in which I leave your side cannot be changed.” – Nam Si Heon / Koo Yeon Jun
“I was under the same sky at the same time as you but I couldn’t go see you.” – Nam Si Heon
Episode 10
“When I get back from 1998, you still have to stay by my side. Promise me.” – Han Jun Hee
“All I can do is watch. I can’t do anything.” – Oh Chan Hui
Episodes 11-12
“Your time is now over but my time is just beginning.” – Kwon Min Ju
- “I wish someone would accept me for who I am instead of treating me like a weirdo!” – Kwon Min Ju
- “I want to ask you a favor. From now on, please don’t look at me like Jun-hee would.” – Nam Si Heon
“After waking up from a lovely dream, I think it hurts even more.” – Kwon Min Ju
“I don’t hate you. I just hate myself the most. I am someone whose life is not worth living.” – Kwon Min Ju
“I know you’re suffering a lot. But you’re not alone. There are many of us that care about you.” – Jung In Gyu
- “I really like you a lot. My heart broke every time you looked at Si-heon. But if it made you happy, I thought that I should bear it.” – Jung In Gyu
- “Everyday I’ll show you how it feels to be loved by someone.” – Jung In Gyu
- “It’s so suffocating. This life has been just so awful. Someone like me should’ve never been born in the first place.” – Kwon Min Ju
“You are very precious to me. I’ve been listening to you all along.” – Jung In Gyu
“I want to wake up from this nightmare. It’s time to wake up from this dream.” – Kwon Min Ju
“You were dazzling. You dazzled me so much that my eyes were sore. I wanted to reach you just for a moment. Even just for the briefest moments. It would’ve been nice, even just for a little while.” – Kwon Min Ju
“You were struggling so much and wanting to give up but it wasn’t because you were weak and depressed. It was because you were so full of hope and expectations for the world.” – Han Jun Hee
“This is not the end. We are not parting ways forever.” – Han Jun Hee
“Perhaps I was wrong to think that I was alone. I think I didn’t take a close look around me and didn’t realize who was there.” – Kwon Min Ju
“I promise. I will surely find you. It doesn’t matter when or where you are. We will definitely meet again. I will come and find you in a time called you.” – Nam Si Heon
Genre: Romance, Time travel
Also known as: To Your Time, Into Your Time
Synopsis: A grieving woman magically travels through time to 1998, where she meets a man with an uncanny resemblance to her late love.
Based on: Taiwan’s television series, Someday Or One Day (2019-2020) by Huang Tien-jen
No. of episodes: 12
Cast: Ahn Hyo-seop, Jeon Yeo-been
Writer: Choi Hyo-bi
Director: Kim Jin-won
Network: Netflix
Date: September 8, 2023
Netflix subtitle translation: Sung In Jang | Images: Netflix
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