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“Our mother tongue, then, is no mother at all—but an orphan. Our Vietnamese a time capsule, a mark of where your education ended, ashed. Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Cleopatra saw the same sunset. Ain't that crazy? Like everybody who was ever alive only seen one sun.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Perhaps it was not a destination I sought, but merely a continuation.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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