"They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it."
"You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvwjSpSkFv
passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty."
"I miss you more than I remember you."
"Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined."
"Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted."
"What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water"
"I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey."
"When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?"
"I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly."
"All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it's no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they "free" wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough"
- Ocean Vuong
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