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121 " Look how happy we are / to be no one "
― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds
122 " Don't we touch each other just to prove we are still here? "
123 " If I close my eyesno one can hurt me. "
124 " I have enough ink to give you the sea but not the ships, but it’s my book & I’ll say anything just to stay inside this skin. "
125 " Milkflower petals in the street like pieces of a girl’s dress. "
126 " Milkflower petals on a black dog like pieces of a girl’s dress. "
127 " There are hands fluttering between the constellations, trying to hold on. "
128 " When our lips touched the day closed into a coffin. In the museum of the heart there are two headless people building a burning house. "
129 " Desse kroppane blei støypte mjuktfor å hindre einsemd. "
130 " I open the shoe box dusted with seven winters & here, sunk in folds of yellowed news -paper, lies the Colt .45—silent & heavy as an amputated hand. I hold the gun & wonder if an entry wound in the night would make a hole wide as morning. "
131 " If you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once....If you must know anything, know that you were born because no one else was coming. "
132 " Everyone can forget us - as long as you remember. "
133 " I didn't know the cost of entering a song-- was to lose your way back. "
134 " It's notabout the light-- but how darkit makes you dependingon where you stand. "
135 " They say the is sky is blue but I know it's black seen through too much air. You will always remember what you were doing when it hurts the most. "
136 " There's enough light to drown in but never enough to enter the bones & stay. "
137 " Because the difference between prayer & mercy is how you move the tongue. "
138 " Young enough to believe nothing will change them, "
139 " Maybe we pray on our knees because godonly listens when we're this closeto the devil. "
140 " he will never see the pleasure this brings to her face. Because in my hurry to make her real, make her here, I will forget to write a bit of light into the room. "