Markéta D.

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“If I had a wish, I would want nothing fancy, just a normal day when all of us could be together as a family; a day where we could just cook, eat, talk, and laugh. I wondered how many people around the world were having such a normal day and didn’t know how special and sacred it was.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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“What my uncle said made me think. I had resented America, too. But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them--their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

tags: multicultural-reading, peace, war

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“The more I read, the more I became afraid of wars. Wars have the power to turn graceful and cultured people into monsters.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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“Maya is silent for a long time, then asks, 'Do you want boys or girls?'

Ana replies as if she's spent her whole life thinking about this, 'Boys.'

'Why?'

'Because the world is kind of shitty toward them sometimes. But it treats us like that nearly all the time.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

tags: gender, sexism

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“I wish I could take back the words I’d flung at her, but words are like water: once they have escaped one’s mouth, they’re spilled onto the floor. Words are like knives, leaving invisible wounds that continue to bleed.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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