Ratha Meng

“in Cambodia people don’t outright compliment a child. They don’t want to call attention to the child. It is believed that evil spirits easily get jealous when they hear a child being complimented, and they may come and take away the child to the other world.”
― Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

“When we contemplate what happened in Cambodia, we are looking not at some exotic horror story but into darkness, into the foul places of our own souls.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”
― Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. ”
― Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers