“Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.” — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“..hard to trust that after so much had been taken, so much could still be received.” — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“But now she did belong to the ravaged city - her frame grown gaunt, her shoulders hunched from tiredness, the bone-sharp jaw line that… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else? — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“Until then she had been blind, but when she saw those mountains, she slipped beneath the surface of the war and found the country.” — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“Helen's Saigon had always been about selling - chickens, information, or lovely young women, it didn't matter. It had once been called the Pearl of the Orient, but by people who had not been there in a very long time. Saigon had never been Paris, but now it was a garrison town, unlovely, a stinking refugee shantyville filled with the… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share
“No matter that they had been together for years, always a feeling of formality when they first saw each other again, even if the… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.” — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“It had always fascinated her - what happens when things break down, what are the basic units of life?” — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind. Pieces of her in Vietnam, some in this place of bone. She brought the letter to her nose. The smell of Vietnam: a mix of jungle and wetness… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share
“Something had broken inside her. No past or future, no sense of time, each day as endless as it was to a child. Linh had been right about her being a tourist of the war in the beginning, but with that detachment there had also been a kind of strength. As Darrow had said, there was a price to mastery.… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share
Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given. — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
![“No matter that they had been together for years, always a feeling of formality when they first saw each other again, even if the separation had been only hours. It had something to do with the attention [he] paid to her – the fact that he never took anyone’s return for granted.” quote by Tatjana Soli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ebc/tatjana-soli-16563_appreciation_no-matter-that-they-had-been-together-fo_555270.jpg)
