Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer Quotes
This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.
He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.
Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?
Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.
While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along
That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.
If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.
Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it