Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Nothing is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer