Cindy

“But Little Saigon as strategic hamlet is not just physical real estate. It is also mnemonic real estate, for according to the informal terms of the American compact, the more wealth minorities amass, the more property they buy, the more clout they accumulate, and the more visible they become, the more other Americans will positively recognize and remember them. Belonging would substitute for longing; membership would make up for disremembering.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

“Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?”
― Jesmyn Ward

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God