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"You may come speak to me whenever you need, Nurse Hyeon. And in the meanwhile, do all you can to save Nurse Jeongsu; she is a good woman in need of a good friend. All I ask is that you do so without disturbing four hundred years of history."
WHAT ARE WE ABT TO GET INTO, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!!

“Start a stone rolling, so in three centuries you’ll have an avalanche.” My first thought was of America and colonialism. The founders came together to put forth a set of ideals for this country w/o addressing the problems that were present. Now, we’re plagued by the same unresolved problems, three centuries later, that will inevitably destroy the same institution we fought so hard to create.

“So it was that for two minutes, we sang all our hearts, feeling only for the past and turning our days from the future, swimmers doing the backstroke toward a waterfall.”
This line is so clever to me. It perfectly encapsulates how shocking the fall of Saigon would be for someone who didn’t see it coming.

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well, or they are strangers.