Mirek Bùi Thanh Bình > Mirek 's Quotes

“Because this body is my last address.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“The dead move on, but the living, we just stay here.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“I am a bad refugee because I insist on seeing the historical reasons that create refugees and the historical reasons for denying refugee status to certain populations.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“Like the homeless, refugees are living embodiments of a disturbing possibility: that human privileges are quite fragile, that one’s home, family, and nation are one catastrophe away from being destroyed.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees