Quote by Monique Truong

“Anh Minh believed that if he could save three minutes here, five minutes there, then one day he could tally them all up and…

— Monique Truong

“But that, I am afraid, was my mistake from the very beginning, the fatal flaw in my design. I thought that I could suffocate…

— Monique Truong

“When they are like this, I remember what the man on the bridge had told me: "The French are all right in France." What…

— Monique Truong

“I know you are in your best áo dài. You bought it when you were just eighteen. Gray is not a color for a…

— Monique Truong

“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never…

— Monique Truong

“Language is a house with a host of doors, and I am too often uninvited and without the keys.”

— Monique Truong

“I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between. ”

— Monique Truong

“She laughed that sharp, quick laugh that smart girls all had, until they found out that the sound of brilliance flashing made boys nervous.…

— Monique Truong

“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories that belonged…

— Monique Truong

Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of…

— Monique Truong

“Obey,' like 'worship,' is a strong word. Her mother and father had told her so, and she believed them. They gave her life, they…

— Monique Truong

“There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.”

— Monique Truong