"The Best We Could Do" Quotes
"The Best We Could Do" is a graphic memoir that chronicles a family's escape from war-torn Vietnam and their struggles to build a new life in America.
graphic novels | 329 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
I learned that home is not just the place where you were born, but the place where you become yourself.
Memory is a choice. But we can't choose not to make one.
There's a difference between remembering and seeing.
In the end, it's not necessarily a happy ending. It's just the place where the story stops.
My mother was not just a mom - she was a person. And I realize how little I know her.
There's so much of my mother I don't know. I didn't know.
There are no such things as true stories, just stories.
To write is to try to understand.
Refugees are just people, no different from anyone else.
Children have a way of seeing things as they are that adults cannot. It's a gift.





