Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Oh, my daughter, at times you have to fight, but preferably not with your fists.”
“Mother says, People share when they know they have escaped hunger. Shouldn't people share because there is hunger?”
“This year I hope I truly learn to fly-kick not to kick anyone so much as to fly.”
“Whoever invented English should have learned to spell.”
“People living on others' goodwill cannot afford political opinions.”
“Mother tells me, They tease you because they adore you.”
“How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?”
“Paperwork, paperwork with a woman who pats my head while shaking her own. I step back, hating pity, having learned from Mother that the pity giver feels better, never the pity receiver.”
“Mother warns how we act today foretells the whole year”
“Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?”
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Book Keywords:
humanity, immigration, refugees, pity
