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61 " Silly me. I thought love was real& the body imaginary. "
― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds
62 " The most beautiful partof your body is whereveryour mother's shadow falls. "
63 " The body was made soft to keep us from loneliness. "
64 " & sometimes your hand is all you have to hold yourself to this world "
65 " Maybe we pray on our knees because godonly listens when we’re this closeto the devil. "
66 " Memory erases into music "
67 " You want to tell him it's okay that the night is also a grave we climb out of "
68 " We live like water: wetting a new tongue with no telling what we've been through. "
69 " Note to self: If a guy tells you his favorite poet is Jack Kerouac, there's a very good chance he's a douchebag. "
70 " Why do all my books leave me empty-handed? "
71 " My soul - born in a nameless place. "
72 " a b c a b c a b c She doesn't know what comes after. So we begin again: a b c a b c a b c But I can see the fourth letter: a strand of black hair - unraveled from the alphabet & written on her cheek. "
73 " 4:37 a.m. How come depression makes me feel more alive? "
74 " The spine won't remember its wings no matter how many times our knees kiss the pavement "
75 " My mother said I could be anythingI wanted-- but I chose to live. "
76 " Green waves surround this black rock where I sit turning bones to sonatas. Fingers blurred, I play what I know from listening to orchards unleash "
77 " ...I didn't know the costof entering a song - was to lose your way back. So I entered. So I lost. I lost it all with my eyeswide open. "
78 " I push my face against a window the size of your palm where beyond the shore a grey dawn lifts the hem of your purple dress & I ignite. "
79 " My son, even tomorrow you will have today. Don't you know? "
80 " Say autumn despite the green in your eyes. Beauty despite daylight. Say you’d kill for it. Unbreakable dawn mounting in your throat. My thrashing beneath you like a sparrow stunned with falling. I "