4 Quotes & Sayings By Loung Ung

Loung Ung is a Vietnamese American writer, editor, and translator. She has been an award-winning journalist for several publications, including the Washington Post and the New York Times. She is the author of "A Cambodian Odyssey," a memoir that chronicles her family's harrowing escape from Vietnam in 1978.

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This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill. Loung Ung
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I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. Loung Ung
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I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. Loung Ung