The Beauty of Humanity Movement Quotes

“The history of Vietnam lies in this bowl, for it is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese heart, that phở was born, a combination of the rice noodles that predominated after a thousand years of Chinese occupation and the taste for beef the Vietnamese acquired under the French, who turned their cows away from ploughs and into bifteck and pot-au-feu. The name of their national soup is pronounced like this French word for fire...”
― Camilla Gibb, The Beauty of Humanity Movement

“In tourism college they were taught that American notions of what constitutes a personal question are quite different from their own. Tư has learned this the hard way, through responses to questions like: And what do they pay you to be a pharmaceutical representative with GlaxoSmithKline, Mr. Clark? Is this lady your wife or your daughter? Do they have the death penalty in your state of Texas? Why are the insides of your ears so hairy?”
― Camilla Gibb, The Beauty of Humanity Movement

“Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.”
― Camilla Gibb, The Beauty of Humanity Movement

“The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.”
― Camilla Gibb, The Beauty of Humanity Movement