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"I likewise hope after you finish this book that you sit close to someone y'all love and implore that person to tell and tell and tell their story."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Dorsum Again
"No one tin can sweep,
for why sweep abroad hope?
No ane tin can splash h2o,
for why splash abroad joy?

(celebration of Tet)"
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"In the distance
bombs
explode like thunder,
slashes
lighten the heaven,
gunfire
falls like rain"
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Dorsum Again
"South Vietnam no longer exists.

One woman tries to throw
herself overboard,
screaming that without a state
she cannot live."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"Then by take chances Female parent learns
sponsors prefer those
whose applications say, "Christians."

Just like that
Mother amends our faith,
proverb all beliefs
are pretty much the same."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Once again

"Father would appear in my course speaking beautiful English as he does French and Chinese and agree out his paw for mine."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Dorsum Again
"Misss Scott
shows the course
photographs

of a burned, naked girl
running, crying down a dirt road

of people climbing, screaming.
desperate to go on
the concluding helicopter
out of Saigon

of skeletal refugees, crammed aboard a
sinking fishing gunkhole,
reaching up to the heavens for help

of mounds of combat boots
abased by soldiers
of the loosing side.

She's telling the class
Where I'm from.
She should have shown
something about
papayas and Tet.

No ane would believe me
but at times
I would choose
wartime in Saigon
over
peacetime in Alabama."
Thanhha Lai, Within Out & Back Once again

"I thought I would dear
seeing him in hurting.
Simply
he looks
more defeated than weak,
more than helpless than scared,
similar a caged puppy"
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again
"They laugh. Shame on them! Claiming them to say something in Vietnamese and laugh right dorsum"
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again
"I repeat, Há, and wish I knew enough English to tell her
to heed for the diacritical marking, this one directing the tone down."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Dorsum Again
"Mother says
if the price of eggs
were not the price of rice,
and the price of rice
were not the price of gasoline,
and the price of gasoline
were not the price of gold,
them of course
Brother Khoi
could go along hatching eggs."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Over again
"At this indicate,
Mother closes her eyes,
optics that resemble no one else's,
sunken and deep similar Westerners'
withal almond-shaped like ours.
I always wish for her eyes,
only Mother says no.
Eyes like hers can't aid
by behave sadness;
even as a child
her parents were alarmed
by the weight in her eyes."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again
"We pretend
the monsoon
has come early.

In the distance
bombs
explode like thunder,
slashes
lighten the heaven,
gunfire
falls like rain.

Afar
yet within ears,
within eyes.

Non that far away
later all."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Dorsum Again

"Mother wants to sell
the amethyst ring
Father brought back
from America,
where he trained
in the navy
earlier I was born.

She wants to buy
needles and thread,
fabric and sandals
from the camp'southward
black market place.

I take never seen her
without this royal rock.
I can't fall asleep
unless I twist the band
and count circles.

Brother Quang says,
NO!
What's the point of
new shirts and sandals
if yous lose the terminal
tangible remnant of love?

I don't understand
what he said
but I agree."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

"And then by chance Mother learns
sponsors prefer those
whose application say "Christians."

Merely similar that
Mother amends our religion,
proverb all beliefs
are pretty much the same."
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Over again

"I step back,
hating compassion,
having learned
from Female parent that
the pity giver
feels better,
never the pity receiver."
Thanhha Lai, Within Out & Back Over again

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