Quotes from Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.