Reading Cat

“How much of me is my own, and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?”
― Thi Bui

“Maybe being their child simply means that I will always feel the weight of their past.”
― Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

“Every casualty in war is someone's grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, brother, sister, child, lover.”
― Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

“This — not any particular piece of Vietnamese culture — is my inheritance, the inexplicable need and extraordinary ability to run when the shit hits the fan. My refugee reflex.”
― Thi Bui