Quotes by Cambodian Authors - Page 2

What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.
Somaly Mam
Had I known, I would not have left you,alone beneath those stars,on the night when I last saw you,not knowing it was the last.
Lang Leav
Love is a game of tic-tac-toe,constantly waitingfor the next x or o.
Lang Leav
I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is the source of great beauty in our lives, yet the cause of such heartache. It remains the bridge between our past and present - it gives weight and dimension to our very existence.
Lang Leav
Anything and everything, the two almost the same--everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.
Lang Leav
Here are the things I want for you -I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don't know if what we had was love, but if it wasn't, I hope to never fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.Finally, I want you to know how sorry I am for pushing you away when I had only meant to bring you closer. And if I ever felt like home to you, it was because you were safe with me. - I want you to know that most of all.
Lang Leav
TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes,the more it's gone—the more it takes away.
Lang Leav
He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others.
Vaddey Ratner
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
There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way--has an almost hypnotic effect.
Lang Leav
...but how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?
Lang Leav
Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
Lang Leav
Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.
Somaly Mam
When did you stop caring? he asked.When did you start noticing? she replied.
Lang Leav
words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.
Vaddey Ratner
There is safety in numbness– there is solace in sleep.
Lang Leav
Stardust
If you came to me with a face I have not seen, with a voice I have never heard, I would still know you. Even if centuries separated us, I would still feel you. Somewhere between the sand and the stardust, through every collapse and creation, there is a pulse that echoes of you and I.
When we leave this world, we give up all our possessions and our memories. Love is the only thing we take with us. It is all we carry from one life to the next.
Lang Leav
I can't believe how hard it is. The pain is indescribable. It's like I've been turned into sandstone and my insides are being slowly hollowed out by a chisel and mallet.
Lang Leav
If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life — they have not loved at all.
Lang Leav
Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.
Lang Leav
First love," said Ida with a sigh. "That's the one that kills you.
Lang Leav
I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.
Loung Ung