“In the fall of the year I turned sixteen, I jumped out of my bedroom window and ran away. The night’s black roads wound like long stretches of river. … The streets ribboned out in all directions. I lifted first… — Le Thi Diem Thuy Copy Share Image
“When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.” — Le Thi Diem Thuy Copy Share Image
“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is dead. From… — Lê Thi Diem Thúy Copy Share Image
“In Vietnamese, the word for water and the word for a nation, a country and a homeland are one and the same: nu’o'c.” — Le Thi Diem Thuy Copy Share Image
“There is not a trace of blood anywhere except here, in my throat, where I am telling you all this.” — Lê Thi Diem Thúy Copy Share Image
“I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away.” — Le Thi Diem Thuy Copy Share Image
“In the fall of the year I turned sixteen, I jumped out of my bedroom window and ran away. The night’s black roads wound… — Le Thi Diem Thuy Copy Share Image
“I go about things in an oblique way. It's like a sidelong glance. This doesn't mean I don't like the sharp stab of directness—only… — Lê Thi Diem Thúy Copy Share Image
