Bao Dai Quotes

“In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.”

“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”

“Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.”

“From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.”

“Everyone's memories and feelings are subjective, and we're teach trapped in our own perspectives. But the difference between perspectives, collectively, create objectivity.”

“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”

“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.”

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”

“Bett didn't have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father gave her a marmot he' stuffed for a man from Wyoming."This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there.”

“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”