Perfume Dreams Quotes

“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.”
― Andrew Lam, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

“So although I still understand my brother in the coffee shop, while he speaks of vengeance, I have learned a different lesson, the American lesson: the knack of reinventing oneself. To survive in the New World, we must, likewise, challenge the old world’s blood-for-blood ethos and search for a new story line.”
― Andrew Lam, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora