For me, choosing happiness has to be something that's conscious, a choice, something I act on. And I think this is something really difficult in a society where there's this falsehood that there's sunshine everywhere and all you have to… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
“On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls...the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived,… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
“This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
“I have to go to the toilet,” I tell Ma urgently after dinner. “You have to go in the woods.” “But where?” “Anywhere you… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
For me, choosing happiness has to be something that's conscious, a choice, something I act on. And I think this is something really difficult… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit, skin, hair,… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect, you try… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it. — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
