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Tatjana Soli is a renowned novelist known for her profound emotional depth and delicate narrative style. Her exact birth and death dates are unknown.

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“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind. Pieces of her in Vietnam, some in this place of bone. She brought the letter to her nose. The smell of Vietnam: a mix of jungle and wetness and spices and rot. A smell she hadn't realized she missed.”

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“Helen's Saigon had always been about selling - chickens, information, or lovely young women, it didn't matter. It had once been called the Pearl of the Orient, but by people who had not been there in a very long time. Saigon had never been Paris, but now it was a garrison town, unlovely, a stinking refugee shantyville filled with the angry, the betrayed, the dispossessed, but she had made it her home, and she couldn't bear that soon she would have to leave.”

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“Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?”

Love Change

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“Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.”

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“A woman sees war differently.”

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“She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.”

War History

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“Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.”

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“She consoled herself with the thought that the pictures were graphic enough to shake people up, stop them being complacent about what was happening, and if that meant the war would end sooner, those two deaths weren't in vain. As she hoped, with less and less confidence each day, that Michael's had not been in vain. Too much waste to bear.”

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“Too many heroes in my life. All gone.”

Gone Hero

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“Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?”

Want Fall One Thing Love You Falling In Love

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“What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?”

Ifs Records

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“Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.”

Sometimes Order Given Love You Promise Deserve

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“The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.”

Giving Hardest Hardest Thing

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“Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.”

War Whole Stories Evidence Accessories Best Picture

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“She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.”

Thinking Way Brave

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“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.”

World Home Left Behinds Pieces Happened Oneself Nostalgia Satisfied Left Behind

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