Ashley Magnani Quotes

I thought the world really hated me. I spent four hours a day being taught that people wanted me dead.

I have to find food -- either I have to hurt somebody, or I have to steal it from somebody.

This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside of me now. The Angkar (Khmer Rouge government) has taught me to hate so deeply that I know I have the power to destroy and kill,

The story was always there and it wouldn`t go away. My memory was never silent.

They are having a hard time surviving the peace after they survived the war,

Maya put it out there, ... She said `I am not going to be ashamed of somebody else`s act of violence.` The soldiers should be ashamed, not me.

In America there`s a saying that children should be seen and not heard, ... In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.

I`ve watched them grow up and study Russian history and American history, ... and they didn`t know any Cambodian history. They didn`t understand us. They`re not going to get the story anywhere else and I just wanted them to know.