Quotes by Thanhha Lai

About Thanhha Lai:

Thanhha Lai is a Vietnam-born American writer of the children's literature. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Newbery Honor for her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, published by HarperCollins.
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Our lives will twist and twist, intermingling the old and the new until it doesn't matter which is which.

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Mother says, People share when they know they have escaped hunger. Shouldn't people share because there is hunger?

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Why no for two deer, but an for two monkeys? Brother Quang says no one knows. So much for rules! Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake.

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I tell you of loss, my child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don't judge it proper or ugly. It's simply there and yours. When you should happen to cry, then cry, knowing that...

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I'm trying to tell MiSSSisss WaSShington about our ceremony for Father. But it takes time to match every noun and verb, sort all the tenses, remember all the articles, set the tone for every s. MiSSSisss WaSShington says if every learner waits to spe...

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Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

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No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again

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Author Bio

  • NameThanhha Lai
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • Born1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist