“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.” — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“I moved forward in the trace of their footsteps as in a waking dream where the scent of a newly blown poppy is no… — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's… — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“A Saigon Proverb: Doe la chine tran, neu buon la thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat.” — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“I learned that music comes from the voice, the rhythm and the heart of each person, and that the musicality of those unrecorded melodies… — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be… — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“…….one horizon always hides another and it goes on like that into infinity, to the unspeakable beauty of renewal, to intangible rapture. As for… — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“...love comes from the head and not the heart. Of the entire body, only the head matters.” — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
“Every gift we offered was a genuine gift, because it represented a sacrifice and it answered a need, a desire or a dream” — Kim Thúy Copy Share Image
