What Hunger Quotes

“Our family didn’t apologize with words. We were blunt about everything else, but apologies felt stilted, strange. We showed remorse through kindness, a favor, a small gift. Sometimes we continued like normal, as though there had been no fight.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger

“You think things are bad one day. You think it can’t get any worse. Then it does.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger

“It’s okay to be lighthearted. It’s good to enjoy things when you’re young. Life is hard already. You need to find those little moments that make it worthwhile.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger

“Because angry tears and sad tears all looked the same.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger

“My mother’s world was made only of her spouse and children. No one else could enter it.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger

“Mẹ and Ba never took us on vacations or signed us up for summer activities. Tommy and I never questioned why—it was all the time, money, and effort that our parents simply didn’t have for us. So we made do with what we had in the house and the backyard.”
― Catherine Dang, What Hunger