Best 7 quotes of Thi Bui on MyQuotes

Every casualty in war is someone's grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, brother, sister, child, lover.

How much of ME is my own and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?

I remember being excited about seeing snow for the very first time.

Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now something I have created and not just something I was born into.

Proximity and closeness are not the same.

That first week of parenting was the hardest week of my life, and the only time I ever felt called upon to be HEROIC.

This - not any particular piece of Vietnamese culture - is my inheritance: the inexplicable need ad extraordinary ability to run when the shit hits the fan. My refugee reflex.