Uyen

“Now you listen to me," says Ove calmly while he carefully closes the door. "You've given birth to two children and quite soon will be squeezing out a third. You've come here from a land far away and most likely you fled war and persecution and all sorts of other nonsense. You've learned a new language and got yourself an education and you're holding together a family of obvious incompetents. And I'll be damned if I've seen you afraid of a single bloody thing in this world before now....I'm not asking for brain surgery. I'm asking you to drive a car. It's got an accelerator, a brake and a clutch. Some of the greatest twits in world history have sorted out how it works. And you will as well." And then he utters seven words, which Parvaneh will always remember as the loveliest compliment he'll ever give her. "Because you are not a complete twit.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Hồi bạn chọn nghề cô dạy trẻ, mọi người cản quyết liệt, nói biết bao nhiêu chuyện sung sướng không làm, chọn chi công việc cực thân tủi lòng, bao lớp học trò một khi lớn lên không còn nhớ. Lúc đó bạn cười hỏi ngược, nhẹ không, “ủa, phải nhớ mới được sao?”. Ai nhớ được tên chị nữ hộ sinh đã cắt dây rốn cho mình?”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, Hành Lý Hư Vô

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko