books quotes

“But why can’t the language for creativity be the language of regeneration?”

“Being sorry pays, being sorry even, or especially, when one has no fault, is worth every self-deprecating syllable the mouth allows. Because the mouth must eat.”

“Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.”

“The mere thought of her fills me with enough desire to send me into a mad frenzy. Yet this memory is also the saddest and most painful of all, for I never really knew this woman’s heart, and I never would.”