“ That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not as much as they bit white people, anyway. Maybe Vietnamese mosquitoes just… Walter Dean Myers
“ All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in… Monique Truong
“ Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. Thanhha Lai
“ Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk. Monique Truong
“ The rural Vietnamese was not regarded simply as a pawn in a power struggle but as the active element in the thrust. He was the thrust. Howard Zinn
“ I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. Monique Truong
“ It is better to pray with a pure heart before the family altar than to perform gaudy ceremonies in a pagoda, clad in the robes of an unworthy bonze. Huỳnh Phú Sổ
“ Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless. Nayan Chanda
