Tatjana Soli Quotes

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

A woman sees war differently.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?