Vu Tran Quotes & Sayings

It happens in an instant, when life becomes startlingly new and frightening and profound, and you turn to the person next to you and see that they feel it too. — Vu Tran

I asked him for a cigarette and he obliged, lighting it for me without a word, without meeting my eye. The quiet ones do this. They exert control by giving nothing out, and it's this blankness that makes them unpredictable, as dangerous as the loud ones are obvious. — Vu Tran

movies?). By feeding a virtual "history" to your brain, it will trigger hormone creation, producing necessary dopamine to drive a particular action. In other words, it will grant you quick access to higher levels of possibility. — Vu Tran

The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn — Vu Tran

In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing? — Vu Tran

The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question. — Vu Tran

What's the ONE THING I can do, (2) such that by doing it, (3) everything else will be easier or unnecessary? There — Vu Tran

My hands felt bruised from the hot, dry air. Inside, — Vu Tran

women lose control when they're afraid and that men lose control when they're in love. — Vu Tran

Perhaps that is the only way that true love can work, when it is prepared for and embraced without thought, without choice. — Vu Tran

[She] had a habit of putting things in that way, as though she had accidently set your house on fire and had no choice now but to stand back and watch it burn. — Vu Tran

Sometimes you don't know what you're writing until you've finished it. — Vu Tran

Next time you want to get back at another man, stab him in the heart. Don't piss in his rice. — Vu Tran

The world is full of people who care but never quite care enough. — Vu Tran