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Night Sky with Exit Wounds QUOTES

Night Sky with Exit Wounds QUOTES

1 " In the body, where everything has a price,
I was a beggar. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

2 " Even my name
knelt down inside me, asking
to be spared. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

3 " How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

4 " & remember, / loneliness is still time spent / with the world. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

5 " Stars. Or rather, the drains of heaven – waiting. Little holes. Little centuries opening just enough for us to slip through. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

6 " Some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

7 " The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

8 " & so what–if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

9 " I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

10 " If you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

11 " Sometimes I ask for too much just to feel my mouth overflow. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

12 " Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

I promise. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

13 " When they ask you where you’re from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst— into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

14 " My mother said I could be anything I wanted - but I chose to live. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

15 " As if my finger, / tracing your collarbone / behind closed doors, / was enough / to erase myself. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

16 " Your father is only your father
until one of you forgets. Like how the spine
won't remember its wings
no matter how many times our knees
kiss the pavement. Ocean,
are you listening? The most beautiful part
of your body is wherever
your mother's shadow falls. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

17 " Stupid boy,
You can get lost in every book
but you can never forget yourself
the way god forgets
his hands. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

18 " Maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we’re this close to the devil. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

19 " Gravity breaking our kneecaps just to show us the sky. "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds

20 " Don't we touch each other just to prove we're still here? "

― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds