Dust Child Quotes

“With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

“When you depart from your first anchor - your mother's womb - you will be pulled away by unexpected currents. If you can fill your boat with enough hope, enough self-belief, enough compassion, and enough curiosity, you will be ready to weather the storms of life.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

“Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

“During the Vietnam War, tens of children were born into relationships between American soldiers and Vietnamese women. Tragic circumstances separated most of these Amerasian children from their fathers and, later their mothers. Many have not found each other again.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child