“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
“To destroy a people, then, is to set them back in time.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I wanted to cry but did not yet know how to in English. So I did nothing.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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