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“What we’ll always have is something we lost”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my
eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.
How you say what you mean changes what you say.
Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air—and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“What if it wasn’t the crash that made us, but the debris?”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother