9 Quotes by Thi Bui

Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now something I have created and not just something I was born into.

To understand how my father became the way he was, I had to learn what happened to him as a little boy. It took a long time to learn the right questions to ask.

That first week of parenting was the hardest week of my life, and the only time I ever felt called upon to be HEROIC.

How much of ME is my own and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?

I remember being excited about seeing snow for the very first time.

This - not any particular piece of Vietnamese culture - is my inheritance: the inexplicable need ad extraordinary ability to run when the shit hits the fan. My refugee reflex.

How much of me is my own, and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?

Proximity and closeness are not the same.

Every casualty in war is someone's grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, brother, sister, child, lover.