Vuong B I D I Vuong B I Quotes & Sayings

This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos. — Salman Rushdie

Brooklyn's too cold tonight
& all my friends are three years away.
My mother said I could be anything
I wanted - but I chose to live.
On the stoop of an old brownstone,
a cigarette flares, then fades.
I walk towards it: a razor
sharpened with silence.
A jawline etched in smoke.
The mouth where I'll be made
new again. Stranger, palpable
echo, here is my hand, filled
with blood thin as a widow's
tears. I am ready. I am ready
to be every animal
you leave behind. — Ocean Vuong

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

what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals? — Ocean Vuong

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great. — J Mascis

In order for things to change, YOU MUST change. If you don't change, then nothing will change. IF you will change, EVERYTHING will change for you. — Duc Vuong

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs. — Meg Cabot

Language excites me. Irrational thought excites me. I spend most of my time listening instead of writing. A shard of language might come: a phrase, a word, an anagram, and I'd just keep it in my pocket, like a little seed, warming in my fist. — Ocean Vuong

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

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. — Summer Altice

We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking. — Pham Nhat Vuong

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

When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart... — Ocean Vuong

Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest. — Pham Nhat Vuong

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are. — Imelda Marcos

The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world. — Ocean Vuong

There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think. — Chris Lowe

When we left it, the city was still smoldering. Otherwise it was a perfect spring morning. White hyacinths gasped in the embassy lawn. The sky was September-blue and the pigeons went on pecking at bits of bread scattered by the bombed bakery. Broken baguettes. Crushed croissants. Gutted cars. A carousel spinning its blackened horses. He said the shadow of missiles growing larger on the sidewalk looked like god playing an air piano above us. — Ocean Vuong

How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet. — Ocean Vuong

Attacking is better than defending. — Pham Nhat Vuong

Don't we touch each other just to prove we are still here? I was still here once. The — Ocean Vuong

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. — Kobe Bryant

I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back. — Ocean Vuong

Confetti
green, how I want you green.
Green despite the red despite
the rest. — Ocean Vuong

Sometimes I ask for too much just to feel my mouth overflow. — Ocean Vuong

Say surrender. Say alabaster. Switchblade.

Honeysuckle. Goldenrod. Say autumn.
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. — Ocean Vuong

I wonder what a soul ... a person's soul ... would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily.
'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers ... and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea ... and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn. — L.M. Montgomery

I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does.-Damon Salvatore, S2 — L.J.Smith

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. — Francis Bacon

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that ... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe. — Barbara Kingsolver