Amanda

“The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“We don’t succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer