Nhi C

“I’ll bet you don’t know, Chuck, how Saigon got its name, do you?” exclaimed Joseph at last, closing the book and jumping to his feet. “It’s really quite interesting.” “I don’t know how it got its name, no,” replied the older boy smiling patiently, “but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me.” “In old Annamese it means ‘Village of the Boxwoods,’ after the trees that originally grew there. It wasn’t much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city. But its name could also be based on the Chinese characters ‘Tsai Con,’ which mean ‘Tribute paid to the West.’” “Fascinating,” said Chuck facetiously. “You’re still king of the useless-information department.”
― Anthony Grey, Saigon

“in a world
full of
temporary things

you are
a perpetual
feeling.”
― Sanober Khan

“And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze,
And so the blossoms fall, and so my days ...”
― Onitsura

“A person can become invisible simply by staying quiet.”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish