" I had offered O-Lan money. Just like Comrade Chuyen, she refused my gift. She did not come to see me for money, she said. “Is there anything you want or need, O-Lan?” She hesitated for a while and then spoke, almost too eloquently, as though she had planned the speech. “I have grown children, and many granddaughters. They are all healthy and good. I would be pleased if you could take one of my grandchildren to America. You can just pick one among them. Any particular one you like. A little girl, perhaps? "

― , Daughters of the River Huong