The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Quotes

Because the Lees [...] fled Laos since their country fell to communist forces in 1975, they do not know if their house is still standing. (1.4)

Since Foua cannot read and has never learned to recognize Arabic numerals, it is unlikely that she followed these instructions. (1.11)

The idea that the drugs prescribed to cure, or at least attempt to treat, an illness are in fact causing it is not one that most doctors ever encounter. (5.31)

Neither doctor could tell how much of their inability to get through was caused by [...] defects of intelligence [...] and how much [...] by cultural barriers. (5.19)

The life-souls of newborn babies are especially prone to disappearance since they are [...] poised between the realm of the unseen [...] and the realm of the living. (1.14)

The professor of French who told me this story said, "Fish Soup. That's the essence of the Hmong." (2.2)

For as long as it had been recorded, the history of the Hmong has been a marathon series of bloody scrimmages, punctuated by occasional periods of peace. (2.3)

The Hmong [...] regarded a child as "the most treasured possession a person can have." (3.4)