Things We Lost to the Water Quotes

“If war had taught her one thing, it was that ideology—how you believed the world should be, what you would die to uphold—was always flawed, and though innocent on its own, it could lead to tragedy.”
― Eric Nguyen, Things We Lost to the Water

“In America, Ben felt like a foreigner, too, but in a different way, He couldn't have explained it. In New Orleans, he couldn't have explained how he and his family got there. There was a boat, a wind led them this way, and, like pilgrims, they settled. Here, in Paris, there was some choice in the matter.”
― Eric Nguyen, Things We Lost to the Water

“That’s what it came down to when it came to raising children: their happiness.”
― Eric Nguyen, Things We Lost to the Water

“He lived to serve not humanity but his ideas and career. In that way, she thought, Catholics were not too dissimilar from the Communists.”
― Eric Nguyen, Things We Lost to the Water