“Stop, Ma. We were born from beauty. The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood.”, “Stars. To love something, then, is to name it after something so worthless it might be left untouched—and alive. It has been months since I last read the book, and still sometimes I find myself going back to my highlighted quotes in kindle just to read about them. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I was being fucked up, at last, by choice. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? Every history has more than one thread, each thread a story of division. “Have you ever made a scene, and then put yourself inside it? To see yourself still yourself is a refuge men who have not been denied cannot know. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. By . What do we mean when we say survivor? If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”, “Is that what art is? But some nothings change everything after them. There were colors I felt when I was with him. To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”, “Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places.”, “We try to preserve life, even when we know it has no chance of enduring its body. Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. You once told me that memory is a choice. A trope in a movie you can walk away from if it weren’t already here, already written down.

You're a killer. It was written so beautifully and so poetically that one cannot help but to be pulled into the story.

I got the wrong chemicals, Ma. I read that parents suffering from PTSD are more likely to hit their children. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. “In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning.

In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly. I did not know then what I know now: to be an American boy, and then an American boy with a gun, is to move from one end of a cage to another. A story, after all, is a kind of swallowing.

A new immigrant, within two years, will come to know that the salon is, in the end, a place where dreams become the calcified knowledge of what it means to be awake in American bones—with or without citizenship—aching, toxic, and underpaid. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”, “Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence - but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”, “To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”, “Ma. https://literaturesandmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/A-Soulmate-Who-Wasnt-Meant-to-Be.mp3, Book Review : On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong, Korean Drama Quotes Galore : Itaewon Class (이태원 클라쓰), 12 New Upcoming Books to Read This Spring 2020 –– May Release, 12 More YA Books Similar to Shadow and Bone Trilogy By Leigh Bardugo, Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power. To say On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, acclaimed poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, is only a novel would diminish its essence and ambition.For it is also an epistle—the book takes the form of a letter written by the narrator Little Dog to his mother, Rose, who cannot read English—as well as epic poem, romance, elegy, family history, theory, and critical essay. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”, “I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”, “Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”, “Did you know people get rich off of sadness? Required fields are marked *. Error rating book. But I lied. window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us17.list-manage.com","uuid":"cc022b4f65c5195f9ea290c76","lid":"9110dfc052","uniqueMethods":true}) }), It’s been a while since I’ve read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by, “No,” I mumble, turning away. They worked well for our discussion, so I’d love for your club to use them too! But so am I—which is why I can’t turn away from you.

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