Truong Quotes

#1. Valten's blood boiled at the thought of Ruexner holding Gisela, of him taking her by force, dragging her away from underneath Valten's nose, from his own home.

Melanie Dickerson

#2. You are what you think you are. Your self-concept determines your performance.

Brian Tracy

#3. I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

Monique Truong

#4. The city was different back then
poor and crumbling
kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.

Candace Bushnell

#5. Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

Monique Truong

#6. God, she was killing him, and he'd never been so happy about the possibility of death.

Avery Flynn

#7. I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Rick Riordan

#8. I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.

Monique Truong

#9. Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face?
- How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face?
Just say that it can. Would you bother? Or would you eat something else?

Claudia Gray

#10. The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

Monique Truong

#11. I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Robert Jordan

#12. As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only what he wanted me to have. I found this was often true with philanthropy and with love. The giver's desire and fulfillment played an important role.

Monique Truong

#13. WE all need a story of where we came from and how we got here.

Monique Truong

#14. Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just hearing him. When I'm onstage, he's looking at the audience members and can't believe that there are strangers listening to me, and he's just delighted by the whole thing.

Sarah Silverman

#16. You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.

George R R Martin

#17. Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

Monique Truong

#18. Chuck is a short guy but he works out a lot, so as a result he's built like a fire hydrant. Most of the time he acts like a fire hydrant, too.

David Levithan

#19. All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

Monique Truong