Markéta D.

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“I wish I could take back the words I’d flung at her, but words are like water: once they have escaped one’s mouth, they’re spilled onto the floor. Words are like knives, leaving invisible wounds that continue to bleed.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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“Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

tags: vietnamese-literature

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“What my uncle said made me think. I had resented America, too. But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them--their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

tags: multicultural-reading, peace, war

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“If I had a wish, I would want nothing fancy, just a normal day when all of us could be together as a family; a day where we could just cook, eat, talk, and laugh. I wondered how many people around the world were having such a normal day and didn’t know how special and sacred it was.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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“Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

tags: vietnamese-authors

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