Here’s a collection of quotes from the Korean series, The Art of Sarah (2026):
Episode 1
“Truth, like light, blinds us. Falsehood, on the other hand, is like a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. That is, until you get caught.” – Sarah Kim
“I’ll take everything I’ve touched so far.” – Sarah Kim
“That was the moment Sarah became someone I could never forget. She was odd, yet I was oddly drawn to her.” – Jeong Yeo Jin
“All I knew was her name but i instinctively knew she was someone extraordinary. Because everyone noticed Sarah.” – Jeong Yeo Jin
“Class often shows in whether one prioritizes quantity, quality, or presentation. I prioritize presentation.” – Choi Chae U
“Let’s take how one views luxury goods as an example. Do you prioritize the price, the logo, or the rarity?” – Choi Chae U
“If you know the value of the bag, I’m sure you know the value of this one, too.” – Sarah Kim
“Mismatches sometimes make the perfect combination.” – Sarah Kim
“People splashing their cash to lose the new money tag. They say flaunting is a sign of insecurity.” – Jeong Yeo Jin
“They say true wealth shows in your air miles, not your bank balance.” – Sarah Kim
“It’s not who you are that matters but who you appear to be. Presence and nuance.” – Sarah Kim
“If you want to know the value of someone, focus on what they don’t have, not what they have.” – Jeong Yeo Jin
“There are three things artists absolutely can’t bear. One, ‘I am ordinary’. Two, ‘I am ordinary’. And three, ‘I am ordinary’.” – Sarah Kim
“I called her ordinary and now she’s dying to prove me wrong.” – Sarah Kim
“You can buy anything with money. Even youth.” – Sarah Kim
“It was the most beautiful fake I had ever laid my eyes on.” – Jeong Yeo Jin
“At this age, being able to make a new friend is an incredibly rare thing. It’s far more challenging than owning a Birkin, and far harder than pulling one off.” – Jeong Yeo Jin
“Either the bag’s fake or the friendship is. Or both.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“A highly evolved counterfeit surpasses the authentic. Because the real thing doesn’t aim for perfection.” – Store agent
“You’re saying it’s perfect, so it’s fake?” – Jeong Yeo Jin
“I’m sure every person passing through a police station has a story. Just call it philanthropy.” – Park Mu Gyeong
Episode 2
“Why steal if you can’t even tell what’s valuable?” – Sarah Kim
“Sarah Kim was a person of exceptional quality.” – Woo Hyo Eun
“I had been shortsighted. It’s the nature of the rich to chase things money can’t buy. The more exclusive it became, the more people insanely sought it out.” – Woo Hyo Eun
“The proprietor was king, not the customer. It was as though it were the kingdom of Sarah Kim.” – Woo Hyo Eun
“As long as luxury goods exist, there will be counterfeits.” – Sarah Kim
“Sarah Kim and Boudoir are all fake from top to bottom!” – Woo Hyo Eun
“I’d say splurge even more, even if you have to borrow money. These are not bags. They’re jewels.” – Woo Hyo Eun
“The only thing I know about that woman is that I don’t know anything about her.” – Woo Hyo Eun
“If you want to know about rock bottom, you have to become it.” – Park Mu Gyeong
Episode 3
“What if it’s a person, not a place? Where the arrow points.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“Even language has fingerprints. All we need is one sentence. No, we just need one word.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“People trust others knowing they shouldn’t, trust themselves believing they’ll be different, believe the world, thinking it’ll be different this time, and believe in lies even while knowing everything is a lie.” – Mok Ga Hui
“How do you think the rich became rich?” – Mok Ga Hui
“You know, I have a dream now. I want to become a person who suits this bag.” – Mok Ga Hui
“Misfortune struck without warning, like a disaster.” – Mok Ga Hui
“Where did things go wrong?” – Mok Ga Hui
“Splendid melancholy. It’s like miserable rich or beautiful trash. Right now, I feel like miserable, melancholic trash.” – Mok Ga Hui
“Interest piled up, and 5 million became 50 million, then 50 million became 500 million.” – Mok Ga Hui
“No matter how hard I try to escape, I find myself in a deeper abyss.” – Mok Ga Hui
“Where there is light, there is darkness. Why did I have to be the darkness?” – Mok Ga Hui
“You’ve got to burn to shine.” – Mok Ga Hui
“Though I will be shattered, I shall do so brilliantly.” – Mok Ga Hui
“A rose will still smell like a rose no matter what name you call it by.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“If she couldn’t change reality, she would change herself.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“A sloppy investigation has turned a living person into a dead one.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“I wish I could be born again.” – Mok Ga Hui
Episode 4
“A woman might take years off but she’ll never add them.” – Kim Eun Jae
“People are so strange. They claim that love transcends status, borders, age, and gender. But if you fall in love like that, they’ll say it isn’t real.” – Kim Eun Jae
“Because a glimpse of hope is far more agonizing than continuous misfortune.” – Kim Eun Jae
“A businessman is not so different to a con artist. But there is one thing that sets him apart. Do you know what? He may begin with a bluff, but he never ends with one.” – Hong Seong Sin
“You know your real self comes out when you let your guard down, right? And you seem even less aware that people like that side of you more.” – Hong Seong Sin
“Living with you made me realize that wealth is not a state of being but a feeling.” – Kim Eun Jae
Episode 5
“Do you know where we find people who vanish voluntarily? When they decide to return.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“It means who I am is not important. If you see me as a con artist, I’m a con artist. If you see me as a businesswoman, I am one. But if you see me just as a person, then you’d be able to understand me.” – Sarah Kim
“Anyone can make a bag, but not everyone can build a luxury brand. I accomplished that.” – Sarah Kim
“To me, it wasn’t a con. It was a matter of survival.” – Sarah Kim
“The world is kind yet indifferent. On one side a lavish party can be underway while someone freezes to death on the other.” – Sarah Kim
“Luxury brands became luxury brands because they discarded what mattered the most. Clients. The more they ignore you, the more they want you. The attitude is what makes you a luxury brand. Which is why I discarded myself.” – Sarah Kim
“Don’t just look at how they spend money but after how they earn it.” – Bar girl
“Isn’t life ironic? I tried so hard to look like them but they make an effort to look like who I used to be.” – Sarah Kim
“Production costs do not determine the value of luxury goods. People chase the status that comes with the brand, not the product itself.” – Sarah Kim
“So if I’m a fraud, then every other brand is too. And as long as they’re not frauds, I’m not one either.” – Sarah Kim
“It was wrong of me to even want to become rich. You don’t become rich. You’re born that way. It was wrong of me to have been born this way. I was born the wrong way.” – Sarah Kim
“I wish I could be born again.” – Sarah Kim
“Have I become like this because I Iived tirelessly? Or did I live tirelessly to become like this?” – Sarah Kim
“The reason people trusted me isn’t because I had some special skill. I just knew what they desperately wanted. And it appears you want something from me, too. You’re desperate for my confession.” – Sarah Kim
“If I run, I’m a con artist. Arrested, I’m a murderer. But if I get released from here, what would people call me?” – Sarah Kim
Episode 6
“People think what they want to believe is the truth. Just because the evidence points to me doesn’t mean I killed anyone.” – Sarah Kim
“She can get rid of evidence, but she can’t erase the tracks she left doing it.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“Why do you look trapped when I’m the one who’s locked up?” – Sarah Kim
“I know what you’re going through, trying to hang on. I’ve been there. Doors that open easily for others have often seemed like walls to me. I feel robbed in those moments when things were never even mine.” – Sarah Kim
“Do you know what kinds of people con artists usually target? Stupid people? Incredibly vain people? No. If anything, they’re intellectuals with expert knowledge. The more expert they are, the more adamantly they believe they can’t be fooled.” – Sarah Kim
“With two people, you end up crying. With three, you end up fighting. With any more than that, you end up feeling lonely.” – Sarah Kim
“It’s not people we can’t trust. It’s their promises.” – Choi Chae U
“Personally, my relationship with you comes first. But professionally, profits come first.” – Sarah Kim
“An excellent con is never discovered because you don’t even realize you’ve been conned.” – Park Mu Gyeong
Episode 7
“Secrets come to light in the end, people leave all too readily, the truth is always brutal, and illusions are bound to shatter.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“Perhaps Boudoir could’ve been real. If you had been real.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“The real thing needs no explanation and fakes can’t exist without one. Why is why I have a lot to explain, starting now.” – Sarah Kim
“If you can’t tell the fake from the real, is it really fake?” – Sarah Kim
“You can learn the world without going to college.” – Sarah Kim
“It’s not lies that blind us. It’s trust. There wasn’t a single honest person in this relationship but we trusted each other too much.” – Sarah Kim
“Trusting something trustworthy is easy. But trusting someone even in an impossible moment? That’s real trust.” – Kim Mi Jeong
“You know, fakes look like the real thing nowadays.” – Sarah Kim
“A work of art? I made that. I’m the one who made that.” – Kim Mi Jeong
“Why can’t I have what you have?” – Kim Mi Jeong
“Serenity is the only gift of confession. I hope you can find peace now.” – Park Mu Gyeong
“I impersonated her. And I killed her to become Sarah Kim. My name is Kim Mi Jeong.” – Sarah Kim
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Also known as: Lady Doir
Synopsis: The life of a mysterious woman with multiple identities begins to collapse when a detective discovers her secrets while investigating a murder case.
No. of episodes: 8
Cast: Shin Hye Sun, Lee Joon Hyuk
Screenwriter: Chu Song Yeon
Director: Kim Jin Min
Network: Netflix
Date: February 13, 2026
English subtitle translation / Images: Netflix
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