Michael

“Hollywood did not just make horror movie monsters, it was its own horror movie monster, smashing me under its foot.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“As the Congressman rose, I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“He’s the best thing that could have happened to us, I said. And that was no lie. It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Although every country thought itself superior in its own way, was there ever a country that coined so many “super” terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer