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1 " What is a country but a borderless sentence, a life?What is a country but a life sentence? "
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
2 " Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? A story, after all, is a kind of swallowing. "
3 " If we are lucky, the end of a sentence is where we might begin. If we are lucky, something is passed on, another alphabet written in the blood, sinew, and neuron; ancestors charging their kin with the silent propulsion to fly south, to turn toward the place in the narrative no one was meant to outlast. "
4 " It was everything that made me want to be a sun, the only thing I knew that had no shadow. "
5 " I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink of an eye, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you were born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly. "
