Kai Tran

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Khoan Độ chắp tay ngẩng mặt lên trời, lầm bầm trong miệng. Hai người cưa một cái đầu. Kẻ bị bó giò rú lên như một con chó dại sủa trăng. Chiếc thuyền bêu đầu trôi sông dập dềnh trên nước. Ông sư ngửa mặt lên trời ăn mày lòng từ bi của thế gian.”
― Nguyễn Xuân Khánh, Đội gạo lên chùa

“We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed - selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful - we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic - and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. Can it be that our critics have not the key or the language of our culture?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden