34 Quotes by Kien Nguyen

If you want to ever achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing over something that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

In the dense air, a gong reverberated. I wondered if it was to announce the end of my journey or the beginning of a new one.

Their arrival was like an attack of locusts in a rice field, fast and uncontrollable.

I don’t have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.

Hit me again, and I’ll report you to the authorities. Follow me to my bed one more time, and I swear to the gods, I’ll search for the most painful way to murder you.

But as much as I tried, I couldn’t forget my past. The events that had shaped me continued to weigh on my soul.

I can’t go to America. I don’t want to go to any foreign land where I don’t speak the language or know the customs. I’d rather die here by the Vietcong’s hands, among my ancestors, than live like a ghost among strangers. You go!