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“And so under the Communist regime the charade of presenting one thing publicly and believing something else privately was enacted even by the children.” (p. 156)

“Phuc, do not cry,” Nu would say. “I cannot carry your pain, but when you cry, I carry your sorrow.” (p. 122)

“(1973) To Americans, Vietnam was not so much a country as a war. For them, it had finally ended...Whatever the morality of America’s involvement in that conflict, the American public was sick and tired of hearing about. That the war in Vietnam was not over...did not weigh heavily on its conscience...” (p. 112)

‘caught between the sticky rice and the bean’ - a saying that captures the situation of the Vietnamese peasant during the war.

“...And so it was for the peasant, living entrapped and beholden to both sides. Any notion of choice of allegiance was nothing but a pretense.” (p. 36)